Re: Request for help, Spanish
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 1:22 |
FFlores wrote:
> Indeed /d/ is [D]
> practically everywhere in Spanish; only /nd/ is [nd] (maybe also
> /ld/)
That's what my Spanish-English dictionary says in the pronunciation
guide. Same with /g/ and /b/. Indeed, it's probably more accurate to
say that they're /B/, /D/, and /G/
> BTW it's not as pronounced as English /D/ -- it's much
> softer, almost a dental approximant. Does that even exist?
Probably just as regular edh with the "more open" diacritic.
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