Re: OT: Help reading Indic transliteration?
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 15, 2004, 21:54 |
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Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
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>>At 15:56 15.1.2004, Mark J. Reed wrote:
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>>>r r` or r\
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>>Actually [r`] is a retroflex flap, which is
>>one allophone of Hindi /d`/. The /r/ is
>>either a plain trill [r] or an approximant [r\].
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>Damn. I've been misusing the CXS here, I see. So just have is one supposed to
>be indicating a retroflex trill?
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Whenever I try to do a retroflex trill, I end up doing an uvular one
simultaneously. Doing one on its own is tremendously difficult. Still,
I'm sure it's possible.
> Andreas
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