Re: Mbasa Vowels

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!"