Re: Hellenish oddities
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 26, 2000, 17:08 |
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On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Raymond Brown wrote:
> So how the Armenians manage _a£ot'k'_ [aGot_hk_h] "prayer", the Georgians
> _p'k'vili_ "flour" & _t'it'k'mis_ "almost", and the Abaza speakers _ap'q'a_
> "in front"?
I had thought that the Georgian p', k', ts', etc. were ejectives, not
merely aspirated stops. I find sequences of ejectives easy to pronounce,
but not so aspirated stops.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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