<!>The Sound Change Thread (2014-12-13 22:33:33)
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most languages with voiced dorsal fricatives/approximants don't pattern them as rhotics, 'rhotic' is only a natural class in the sense that /r/ does weird things but people who speak a language where /r/ does those things tend to have an intuition that they're forms of /r/, like the velar lateral affricate in Hiw