Re: OT: Help reading Indic transliteration?

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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