Re: Chinese Dialect Question
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 15, 2003, 7:19 |
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At 00:48 7.10.2003, Paul Bennett wrote:
>Pashto also has /s`/ and /z`/, I don't know if they're considered /r/-like
>by native
>speakers.
Actually they are perceived as /x/ and /G/-like, since they
alternate with these in some dialects. Hence the
alternative spellings _Pakhto_ and _Paxhto_.
>Hindi (or more properly Devanagari) has /r/, /r`/ and /r`_h/ The latter
>are written with
>diacritised versions of /d/ and /d_h/ (notably not /d`/ and /d`_h/). Also,
>there's the
>syllabic rhotics /r\=/ and /r\=:/
That's certainly wrong. {r`} is dotted {d`} and {r`_h} is
dotted {d`_h}.
/BP 8^)
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