Re: Second report on Koni'

En réponse à Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>:

>
> Good. At least it means that my ears do not betray me :-))
>
Or our sets of ears betray us in the same way ;)) .

> >
> > Could Ukranian /v/ be actually [v\] (labiodental approximant)? Or is
> it
> > definitely fricative?
>
> Good idea. But on the other hand, I slightly doubt if it is labiodental.
> It
> sounds (and looks) more like smth bilabial. Having looked at the
> thread
> about Czech r^, I found an opportunity to describe it as "voiced
> bilabial
> approximant" [B_o] - "lowered beta".
Hehe, that was to be my second proposal :)) .

 Ugh, pronunciation threads become
> dangerous...
>
As long as they are not *English* pronunciation threads, everything's OK ;)) .
And it probably gives ideas to many conlangers (I know it does to me. I've just
realised that Maggel's palatalised [r] is most probably pronounced like Czech
r^ ;))) ).

Christophe.

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