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Re: OFF: Name for a cat

From:Carlos Thompson <carlos_thompson@...>
Date:Thursday, September 30, 1999, 4:04
Nik wrote:

> Carlos Thompson wrote: > > Hangkerimians just call cats as KA^DO~ which is definitively a Spanish > > borrowing. > > Why /k/ and /d/? I take it KA^DO~ is something like /kAdo/? Why not > GA^TO~?
Just because /g/ and /t/ are just allophonies of <K> and <D> respectivelly, and have no representation of their own... well, actually it is KA^DU~ (/o/ is an allophony of <U>). But once the word became a full Hangkerimce word, is just pronounced /'kAdu/. Well, actual pronunciation would vary on emphasis from /'kADo/ to /'gOdu/. -- Carlos Th