Re: Streaming foreign languages was Re: Maltese Phonology

Danny Wier wrote:

> > Modern German has a lot of words ending in -o, -a, -os and -as, so
there's
> > its Spanish-like quality. It would sound more like Castillian I would
> > imagine.
> D'OH!! That's Ellinika that I meant obviously, not Deutsch.
I was going to say something, but I see you caught it. :-)

>  In everyday speech, many of those consonants kind of disappear.
Do they? You probably know a lot more Georgian than I do, but just judging
by what I've heard, it sounds to me like they pronounce them (or most of
them) but that they break up a lot of the consonant sequences with schwas.
Although it does seem like /v/ has a marked tendency to get labialized into
/w/.

> I could've brought up Tibetan as well.
Listening to the Tibetan broadcasts on the internet, it always strikes me as
sounding  like a cross between Chinese and Turkish. I'd love to take a
Tibetan class someday, though, if only to learn that magnificent alphabet...

Thomas

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