Re: Phaleran: the Webpage.
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 12, 1999, 10:26 |
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On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Fabian wrote:
> >Ed Heil wrote:
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> >> Aspirated and unaspirated AFFRICATES?
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> >> God save the Phalerans from their consonants! :)
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> I believe many Indian languages have such features. At least, it is encoded
> in their scripts. I even learnt the diference from a friend the other day :)
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Well, for Sanskrit, the signs commonly transcribed as c, ch, j, jh
are supposed to be stops - and when I learnt Nepali my teacher spent
a lot of time make sure I didn't pronounce them as affricates but as
centro-palatal stops. Daniels in The Worlds Writing Systems gives them
as affricates in all modern prakrits, however, and they're not difficult
to pronounce at all.
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt