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Re: Newbie...intro to my conlang

From:Beau Didler <danlefrancais@...>
Date:Thursday, December 11, 2003, 14:19
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:42:08 -0800, Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
wrote:

> The Journal of Pidgin & Creole Languages used to have a nice glossary > online, but the entire JPCL site seems to have disappeared. :(
Any other suggestions along that line, then?
>Approximants are semivowels, like /w/ and /j/.
Brain flatulence. That rings a very distant bell, so I guess I have heard it. Thanks!
>AIUI, you put your lower lip against your upper teeth as if you're going >to pronounce and /f/ or /v/, and make a nasal.
Thanks! While were talking symbol pronunciation, is the symbol that looks like the german s-tset (greek Beta) a bilabial fricative, and is that the sound in spanish that gets mistaken for /b/?

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