Many Indo-Aryan languages have aspirated stops. Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, and Gujarati have a four-way distinction in stops: voiceless, aspirated, voiced, and breathy-voiced or voiced aspirated, such as /p pʰ b bʱ/. Punjabi has lost breathy-voiced consonants, which resulted in a tone system, and therefore has a distinction between voiceless, aspirated, and voiced: /p pʰ b/.
Many Indo - Aryan languages have aspirated stops . Sanskrit , Hindi , Bengali , Marathi , and Gujarati have a four - way distinction in stops : voiceless , aspirated , voiced , and breathy - voiced or voiced aspirated , such as /p pʰ b bʱ/. Punjabi has lost breathy - voiced consonants , which resulted in a tone system , and therefore has a distinction between voiceless , aspirated , and voiced : /p pʰ b/.
Which distinction has Punjabi lost?
Which distinction has Punjabi lost ?
breathy-voiced consonants
breathy-voiced consonants