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Re: replies to padraic brown and danny wier

From:David Peterson <digitalscream@...>
Date:Thursday, July 5, 2001, 20:35
In a message dated 7/5/01 10:44:25 AM, dawier@YAHOO.COM writes:

<< I like the nasal and front rounded vowels.  But that uvular R gets to me; I

still wanna trill it like Spanish (easier to pronounce anyway); the uvular
grate

belongs in Arabic.  Pronouncing the Dutch G, a similar phone, gives me cotton

mouth; I wanna cheat and just say [g] like they do in Afrikaans, or is that

Flemish? >>

    Arabic does have a voiceless, uvular plosive, but nothing else.  That
letter "ghayn" is a voiced, velar fricative.  Counterpart with "ayn" (voiced
phyryngeal fricative), and then with the pair "Haa" (voiceless phyryngeal
fricative) and "khaa" (voiceless velar fricative).  What's the Dutch G sound
like?  Is it a voiced uvular plosive?  Voiced velar fricative?

-David

Replies

Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>