Re: Chinese Dialect Question
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 1, 2003, 8:42 |
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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.
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