Re: Your Help Appreciated

taliesin the storyteller spake, saying:

> * John Mietus <sirchuck@...> [000508 12:54]:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Well, I knew I was a total amateur in this, but I'm sorry I've stirred up
>> such controversy by my (now rather pathetic, I realize) attempts to explain
>> the sounds of my proto-root language. Here's a stack of replies:
>>
> [..]
>> Then, Nik Taylor spake, saying:
>>
>>> John Mietus wrote:
>>>> Yes, a non-nasal /m/ where the lips do not actually touch.
>>>
>>> Is there nasalization involved?
>>
>> Not really...I originally thought of it as a "v" sound where there is no
>> dental element, hence the orthographic "vh".
>
> Hmm... maybe you mean an approximant v, like script v in Norwegian?
>
>
> t.
I believe so, yes.

John