Emaelivpeith Benct Philip Jonsson:
> (I don't know how you pronounce your nick,
> but Arsaey Angosaey would be wellformed
> albeit meaningless Sohlob. You are not
> as fortunate as Sarah whose name is
> wellformed as is!)
['Ar\Tej &N'gosi]
> BTW you seem to pronounce |iy| as [ai]; is that intentional?
Yup, |iy| is a rare digraph in Asha'ille for [Ai]. :)
T'ves emaelivpeith Tim May:
> It sounds like an ejective to me (or, at least, it sounds like I do
> when I try to produce an ejective). This does not surprise me. If
> your language (i.e. English) doesn't make a distinction of
> glottalization, and you try to produce a pure voiceless plosive
> without any accompanying vowel, the easiest thing to do is close the
> glottis and use glottalic initiation, that is, an ejective.
It seems like that is indeed what I'm doing. If I consciously leave
the back of my throat relaxed, plain [k] is a *much* softer sound than
my |k'|. Cool, casual Asha'ille has ejectives! :)
> Well, I was interested to compare what I thought I was hearing with
> what you thought you were saying
Good point. Maybe I'll modify my script to let me give it a phonetic
transcription for each line, too...
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