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Re: Tasratal: phonology

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 23, 2001, 13:06
At 10:23 2001-10-22 +0200, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

>It is. Basque writes /S/ as 'x' and /tS/ as 'tx'. It writes /s/ as 'z' and >/ts/ >as 'tz', and 's' and 'ts' are special fricative and affricate (though I never >really knew what they are: alveo-palatal compared to 'z' alveolar?)
'z' is lamino-alveolar and 's' is apico-alveolar. Some dialects have lost this distinction, tho. It just so happens that in Icelandic 's' is apico-alveolar and 'þ' (thorn) is lamino-alveolar, so I guess Anglophones may cheat by pronouncing Basque 'z' as a dental fricative... /BP 8^)> -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:bpX@netg.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarokko\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)