Talk:Labialisation

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Can one labialize a labial? -Iopq 10:30, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Some analyses of Adyghe postulate the phoneme /pʷʼ/. There are also labialised labials in the Australian language Arrernte. Thefamouseccles 03:33, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, labial consonants generally involve a vertical lip moovment; secondary labialization a horizontal moovment. These can certainly be combined. Phonemic labialized labials also appear in eg. Kabyle language and various Austronesian languages. --Tropylium (talk) 11:15, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] British or American?

Is Wikipedia fundamentally British or American? If British, then it needs to be consistently -isation, -ised, -ise, etc. in this article. If American, then -ization, etc. Right now, it's just a mix in this article. (Of course I prefer -ize since it's borrowed from Greek -iz originally and the British misspell it.) (Taivo (talk) 23:11, 24 February 2008 (UTC))

[edit] Source for Abkhaz

Hewitt, George and Khiba, Zaira. Abkhaz Newspaper Reader. Dunwoody Press (Kensington, MD), 1998. pp iii-v --Foszter (talk) 19:57, 29 February 2008 (UTC)