Re: Your Help Appreciated

Raymond Brown spake, saying:

> At 5:53 am -0500 8/5/00, John Mietus wrote:
> [....]
>> Then Raymond Brown spake, saying:
>>
>>> At 2:35 pm -0500 7/5/00, John Mietus wrote:
>>>> Primarily orthographic. The  <kth> would be something like the orthographic
>>>> <cth> cluster I've seen in some Greek words,
>>>
>>> If so, they were carelessly transliterated.
>> [...]
>> Got it. What I'm going for is something like /kT/.
>
> Right - I guess you're probably thinking of /kT/ in words like
> 'ichthyology', ichthyosaur' etc.  They are of Greek origin, but the /kT/
> pronunciation is _English_ , not Greek.  No reason, however, not have it in
> your language also.
>
Right -- or "chthonian" -- again, English pronunciation.

>> Sure. As I explained above, it's more of a /v/ without the lips touching or
>> any dental element -- oh, or a "w" without any articulation of the lips,
>> where the air vibrates the lips. I only ever use the sound as an initial
>> consonant.
>
> If the air vibrates the lips, we must have a fricative sound of some sort.
> If there is no dental element, then it sounds very much like the voiced
> labial fricative that Carlos suggested.  Drop the "denasalized /m/"
> termonology; the IPA symbol is a Greek lower-case beta, which is ASCIIfied
> as /B/.
Got it and done. Thanks.

> Keep at it - we're all still learning in our own ways.  And I've found most
> people on this list are very helpful.
>
> Good luck with your project!
>
Thanks --Everyone's been so helpful already.

John