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Well, for all reasons RomaniRomani counts as an indigenous language of Europe. From the fourfold distinction in most Indoarian languages on stops Romani went to a threefold distinction: voiced–voiceless–voiceless aspirated.

So one finds the segments b, p, and pʰ; d, t, and tʰ (only one kind of this, the retroflex stops were rhotacised in Romani); and g, k, and kʰ.

Well, for all reasons Romani counts as an indigenous language of Europe. From the fourfold distinction in most Indoarian languages on stops Romani went to a threefold distinction: voiced–voiceless–voiceless aspirated.

So one finds the segments b, p, and pʰ; d, t, and tʰ (only one kind of this, the retroflex stops were rhotacised in Romani); and g, k, and kʰ.

Well, for all reasons Romani counts as an indigenous language of Europe. From the fourfold distinction in most Indoarian languages on stops Romani went to a threefold distinction: voiced–voiceless–voiceless aspirated.

So one finds the segments b, p, and pʰ; d, t, and tʰ (only one kind of this, the retroflex stops were rhotacised in Romani); and g, k, and kʰ.

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Sir Cornflakes
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Well, for all reasons Romani counts as an indigenous language of Europe. From the fourfold distinction in most Indoarian languages on stops Romani went to a threefold distinction: voiced–voiceless–voiceless aspirated.

So one finds the segments b, p, and pʰ; d, t, and tʰ (only one kind of this, the retroflex stops were rhotacised in Romani); and g, k, and kʰ.