Re: Orthography help
| From: | Irina Rempt <irina@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 13, 2004, 20:26 |
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On Monday 13 September 2004 20:22, Ray Brown wrote:
> Barred-l is a possibility for the voiceless lateral fricative. But
> IME those who have never or rarely heard the Welsh (or Nuguni)
> pronunciation and and do not know the spelling, more often than not
> think the sound is a badly pronounced [s] or [S], so something
> suggesting the sibilant sound is another possibility.
And indeed in Kirshenbaum's ASCII IPA it's s<lat>.
Valdyans think of it as a species of /l/ rather than a species of /s/
and write it with the 'aspirated' variant of the 'l' letter; I
transcribe it 'lh'.
Irina
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Vesta veran, terna puran, farenin. http://www.valdyas.org/irina/
Beghinnen can ick, volherden will' ick, volbringhen sal ick.
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