Re: USAGE: syllables
From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
Date: | Sunday, June 15, 2003, 20:19 |
> > Perhaps, but it's not only the English - look how the Spanish used
> > "tl" [t_dl] for [K] throughout so much of the New World.
>
>That's [K]? I thought it was supposed to be an affricate [tK] or
>something like that... must go correct my (left-handed Lithuanian)
>brother; he just read "Feathered Serpent" by Colin Falconer, a historical
>novel about the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and i told him that |tl| was
>supposed to be pronounced [tK]...
I was taught at the university that it was [K], but that was 30 years ago,
and who knows how accurate they were.
Anyone here who can confrim this or correct what I was taught?
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