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Re: OT: Help reading Indic transliteration?

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, January 17, 2004, 12:32
Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> At 22:19 16.1.2004, Andreas Johansson wrote: > > >What's the difference between sublamino-postalveolar and truly retroflex? > > Tamil retroflexes are sublamino-palatal > or apico-palatal. Such sounds are called > 'cacuminal' in Swedish tradition, and occur > in Scandinavian dialects as the reflex of > /l/+dental. NB Hindi and Marathi retroflexes > are merely sublamino-postalveolar. I lack > info for other Indic languages, I'm afraid.
OK, thanks! I note my retroflexes is pronounced further back than my [S], but probably indeed still in the postalveolar region. I can back them to fully palatal or even velar position, tho. Freaklang designers might want to try and include a sublamino-velar series. Incl a trill ... Andreas

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Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>sublamino-velar trill (was: OT: Help reading Indic transliteration?)