Re: Q about /c/
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 25, 2004, 16:02 |
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En réponse à Joe :
>Hmm. Orbis Latinus claims that |y| is [j], as do a load of other sites,
>a good chunk of dictionaries, and the tapes from my school Spanish
>course. Orbis Latinus also claims that the 'official' pronunciation in
>España is that |ll| is [j], my teachers agree.
I have to disagree. I was myself taught that 'll' and 'y' were identically
pronounced, but had the disagreeable experience when I went to Spain to
discover that it isn't so in Castille, and that officially 'll' is [L]. [L]
is still very much used in Castillan Spanish (the Spanish of Madrid and its
neighbourhood) and as it happens it's the dialect that is considered
"standard" and taught at schools. My teacher of Spanish was of origin
Andalucian and never went to school in Spain, which is why she taught us
the 'll'='y' thing. After the trip, she admitted that it was not official
standard, but that except in Castille everyone spoke that way.
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.
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