Re: Common Orcish Article (Long) - was Re: tolkien?
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 14, 2003, 23:11 |
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On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 11:21:23 +0100, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
wrote:
>Also, I do not know if there's any universal for this, but from the languages
>I've seen, I'd expect that one that fails to distinguish voiced and voiceless
>fricatives and affricates would have the default pronunciation as voiceless,
>while this lang apparently has the voiced.
There's a convention of using the letters for voiced stops in Australian
languages -- Jirrbal, Yidiny, Warrgamay, Mbabaram, Guugu Yimidhirr, etc.
Whether this reflects actual voiced stops in these languages, or just
unaspirated stops that sound voiced to the ears of native English speakers,
I don't have any idea. And there are a few exceptions like Pitjantjatjarra,
which use all voiceless stop letters.
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