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	Revision 15 . . December 5, 2001 7:14 am by Drpolilla
	Revision 14 . . December 5, 2001 7:07 am by Drpolilla
	Revision 13 . . (edit) December 5, 2001 7:02 am by AxelBoldt
	Revision 12 . . December 5, 2001 7:00 am by Drpolilla
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	Revision 10 . . (edit) December 3, 2001 7:03 am by (logged).186.144.xxx
	Revision 9 . . December 3, 2001 7:02 am by (logged).186.144.xxx [translated 'ergatibo' to English and made it a link]
	Revision 8 . . December 3, 2001 6:58 am by Vicki Rosenzweig [refactored to combine two articles]
	Revision 7 . . December 3, 2001 4:07 am by ManningBartlett [added material from Basque - there are now 2 completely unintegrated articles here]
	Revision 6 . . (edit) November 25, 2001 8:18 am by Derek Ross
	Revision 5 . . November 23, 2001 8:28 am by (logged).174.12.xxx
	Revision 4 . . November 16, 2001 11:04 am by Vicki Rosenzweig [put letters-as-symbols in quotes to avoid conflict with apparent code <dd>]
	Revision 3 . . November 16, 2001 11:01 am by Vicki Rosenzweig [introductory sentence, in standard wikipedia style]
	Revision 2 . . May 14, 2001 3:34 am by Wathiik

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Palatalization? is quite typical of Basque pronunciation, where "tt" and "dd" are /t_j/ and /d_j/ respectively. "s", "z" and "x" are sibilants, the latter designates /S/, the first is apical and the second laminal. The function of stress in Basque is generally not understood. "j" is pronounced as [d_j], [S], [X], [j] or [Z] according to region. The vowel system is the same as Spanish for most speakers, namely /a, e, i, o, u/. Some speakers also have /y/. It is thought that the spanish took that system from basque.