Re: Korean politeness levels ( wasRe: Tonal Languages taken toextremes)

Nik Taylor wrote:
>I've usually seen it as n' when before vowels or y, but just n elsewhere
>(sometimes also before n, inexplicably), fun'iki, but konpyuuta, usually
>onna, but sometimes on'na, that I find odd, as there's no possibility of
>confusion anywhere but before vowels or y, it's especially odd as those
>writers *don't* say _kon'pyuuta_, which would be more consistent.  I've
>seen ñ used once or twice, but I find that rather ugly.  Nihoñjiñ ...
>*shudder* :-)

"ñj" seems to be Sanskritist tradition-- _of course_ the nasal before a
palatal is also palatal.  The final "-ñ" look like Kash (which I don't like
either, but couldn't use "ng" and refused to use "N"  mixing UC with lc....
The rest is all eminently sensible.  I guess my ignorant question would be:
is there a difference in pronunciation between "fun'iki" "{fun.iki} and
(hypothetical?) "funiki" {fu.ni.ki} ??  (Well, yes, I guess-- fun'iki would
be 4 morae/syllables?)

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