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Re: Mbasa Vowels

From:Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <irina@...>
Date:Friday, October 5, 2001, 9:29
On Friday 05 October 2001 01:07, David Peterson wrote:

> If you can find an Arabic sample, it's the letter called "ayn". > Kind of sounds like choking. The easiest way to think about it is > this: If you try to make the purest [i], and then greatly constrict > the place of articulation and try to throw a vowel after it, you'll > naturally get a [j]; if you do the same thing with [u] you get [w]; > if you do the same thing with [A] you get the sound above. So, > make an [A], and then greatly constrict the passage; you'll get a > [?/] (and I'm sorry I don't know the official symbol for this).
That's the clearest explanation I've ever seen; thanks! Irina -- irina@valdyas.org http://www.valdyas.org/irina --------------------------------------------------------------------- By my troth, we that have good wits have much to answer for. We shall be flouting; we cannot hold. - William Shakespeare, _As You Like It_

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