Re: Noo/Nih Yauk (was: Futurese)

From: "Barry Garcia" <barry_garcia@...>

> /N/ is easy for me now. It was a bit hard at first, but when I took a
> Tagalog course, my teacher had us practice it with the five vowels. I have
> it down to a science and even include it initially in Saalangal.
A good way of training oneself to be able to easily pronounce initial [N] is
to say "singer" slowly and carefully, then leave off the "si-" part. At
first the [N] would probably be syllabic.

I'm really having more trouble pronouncing ejectives à la
Georgian/Navajo/Amharic/Maya with a degree of efficiency, not just
"spitting" consonants out.

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