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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Gaelic Consonants, was Voiceless L
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In article <3tmudh$gio@news.pacificrim.net>,
Paul Tholfsen <tholfsen@pacificrim.net> wrote:

>Personally speaking, I can't figure how one can place one's tongue in 
>either of these positions while pronouncing a "b", but I'm willing to 
>learn.  Does anyone have an alternate explanation of these sounds, and 
>possibly a comparison with other more widely spoken languages?

"Non-palatalised" and "palatalised."  Russian is probably the most
widespread modern language with this distinction.  Like Gaelic, it
also spells the distinction in the vowels and not the consonants 
(understandable in that this orthography requires 32 separate symbols
instead of 40+).

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