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Re: Country names

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Friday, May 9, 2003, 16:39
Quoting Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...>:

> Stone Gordonssen wrote: > > > >I hope I'm not the only one that tried to figure out how [~=AmEranch] > was > > >supposed to be pronounced, and how the Australians could mangle the > > >word 'station' so badly... > > > > Drat. You mean Aussies don't use a borrowed Aboriginal word which > > begins with a nasalized centralized [A]? > > The tricky part is that [nch] ending. Alveolar nasal followed by > palatal > stop and ended with a glotal fricative...
If we interpret that "h" as loose transcription for aspiration (this is explicitly acceptable according to the X-SAMPA document), it's no worse than German words like "Amt". Andreas

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Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...>Country names still needed
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