Re: Sound changes
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 24, 2002, 13:38 |
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On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 12:17:27PM +0000, Andreas Johansson wrote:
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> The Cantonese name _Ng_? Please tell that there's a vowel missing here
> somewhere - a word [N=] ought to be illegal!
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No, I believe it *is* [N=]. In fact, my own mother tongue has it too. [N=]
(rising tone) means "yellow". Although in my generation, it has become
[u~j~i~] instead.
T
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