Etruscans

[Rick Mc Callister]

	Tuscan unvoiced stops are aspirated or fricativized in some areas.
This is well documented.
	My undergrad Italian prof had Calabrian parents and told of a
similar phenomenon in their dialect, e.g. /lu xurkhu/ "fork"

>        I have it on good authority (Eric Hamp) that English-like aspiration
>occurs in some Pennine Italian dialects.

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701