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Re: Chinese Dialect Question

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 1, 2003, 8:42
En réponse à H. S. Teoh :


>Speaking of Portuguese... I find it rather annoying that _r_ is pronounced >[x]. And Spanish always confuses me with _y_ being [dZ] and _j_ being [j] >which is swapped from the English usage. As with using _h_ for [?].
What kind of disfunctioning Spanish dialect are you referring to?! In Spanish 'y' is [j] or [dZ] depending on dialect (I've heard [Z] too, so there may be others) and 'j' is mainly [x] and sometimes a few other pronunciations (like [h]), but absolutely never [j]!!! And 'h' is silent (Spanish doesn't have the glottal stop, except maybe in interjections). Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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