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Re: Mbasa Vowels

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Friday, October 5, 2001, 12:09
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 22:48:02 EDT David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>
writes:
> In a message dated 10/4/01 6:53:47 PM, exponent@TECHNOLOGIST.COM > writes: > No, no, no... It's an approximant, a glide. According to my > phonology > teacher (and I agree), there is no such thing as a voiced > pharyngeal > fricative, or if there is, it's not found in any of the world's > languages; > what they really have is an glide. But a stop? No, I didn't intend > to > describe a stop... It's very much a continuant. Did I screw up? > > -David
- I usually pronounce it as a fricative, though... at least in Hebrew. I haven't been taking Arabic for long enough to do any serious study in how i 'usually' pronounce it. -Stephen (Steg) "mew, mew hast, mew hast meep!"