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Re: târuven vowels and diphthongs

From:Carlos Thompson <carlos_thompson@...>
Date:Monday, October 16, 2000, 14:49
Daniel Andreasson skrev:

> I went to http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/x-sampa.htm instead. > > Anyway. I'm not used to x-sampa at all so I have a few questions. > > 1. What's /L/? x-sampa says "palatal lateral approximant"
Spanish <ll> as pronounced by Castilians or Ecuatorians. Quechua <ll>, Italian <gl>. You can see at it as a palatized version of /l/ or a laterized version of /j/. Inverse y in IPA.
> 2. What's /H/? x-sampa says "voiced labial-palatal approx."
French <u> in diphtongs. The aproximant (semivocalic) version of Swedish <y>. Inverse h in IPA. -- Carlos Th