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Originally Posted by Nagoyankee
Not true at all. You can't introduce a new sound to an entire nation/language so easily. That is rediculous.
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It really depends on few circumstances. The Japanese "di" syllable was lost for several centuries thanks to the "high vowel assimilation of alveolar consonants" and linguists didn't object that Japanese phonology can restrain the speakers from pronouncing "di".
If it was trying to introduce a brand new phoneme (either vowel or consonant) to a given language, then it's theoretically impossible to superimpose it to the speakers.