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Routledge dictionary of language and linguistics - Developers

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A-Z 833<br />

Old Slavic Old Church Slavic<br />

Old South Arabic Semitic<br />

Omotic<br />

East African branch <strong>of</strong> Afro-Asiatic postulated by H.Fleming in 1969, earlier considered<br />

to be West Cushitic <strong>and</strong> thus belonging to the Cushitic <strong>language</strong>s. There are some two<br />

dozen <strong>language</strong>s with about 1.3 million speakers.<br />

Reference<br />

Bender, M.L. 1975. Omotic: a new Afroasiatic <strong>language</strong> family. Carbondale, IL.<br />

one-dimensional opposition opposition<br />

Oneida Iroquoian<br />

on-glide vs <strong>of</strong>f-glide<br />

Beginning vs end phase in the articulation <strong>of</strong> a speech sound; the movement <strong>of</strong> the<br />

articulatory organs ( articulator) from or to their resting position. A distinction is<br />

drawn between strong <strong>and</strong> weak on- <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong>f-glides. Most speech sounds show weak <strong>of</strong>fglides,<br />

the exception being postaspirated, postnasalized, or affricated plosives (<br />

aspiration, affrication), including the glottal stop. Strong on-glide occurs in nonpreaspirated,<br />

non-prenasalized plosives. ( also glottalization)

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