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Dravidian but in our Balkan sprachbund
Dravidian but in our Balkan sprachbund


Phonology: loosely like Romanian/Bulgarian but with retroflexes? the old Tamil retroflex flap (which I believe is what evolved into the retroflex approximant) should officially become a fricative "zh"
Phonology: loosely like Romanian/Bulgarian but with retroflexes? the old Tamil retroflex flap (which I believe is what evolved into the retroflex approximant) should officially become a fricative "zh" through some kind of Czech ř-like sound (which can be dialectal)


mãzhã "rain" /mɨʒə/?
mãzhã "rain" /mɨʒə/?
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