Re: Dsh (Orcan) Phonology, and a preview of the grammar

At 4/25/00 12:36 PM +0200, you wrote:

>At 10:43 21/04/00 CDT, you wrote:
>>First, the phonology.  (BTW, the language and the people are called Dóh;
>>that's capital D, O acute accent, H.
>>
>>Consonants:
>>
>>k, g [N], h  *Note the unusual value of [g].
>
>Well, not that unusual, for instance the /g/ in Japanese is (still) often
>nasalised (except at the beginning of words) (I was told it's disappearing,
>but I heard it more than once in a Japanese anime,so I think it's not that
>dead), so the Rooma-ji <g> often stands for [N] too :)) .
One of my Japanese TA's insisted that we pronounce /g/ as [N], because she
couldn't tell the difference between our k's and g's.  None of the Japanese I
have spoken to outside of class have objected or even commented on that
pronunciation, even when they mentioned others.  So it seems to be quite
alive.

Marcus