Re: Affricatives
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 6:56 |
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--- Elyse Grasso skrzypszy:
> Are there back affricatives? The ones I can think of are English CH and
> J, and Japanese tsu and the voiced equivalent, and Pf. (Is there a
> voiced labial affricative found anywhere?)
A palatal fricative can occur in the non-standard pronunciation of the Dutch
ending -"tje", for example in "beetje" (a bit): ["be:cC@]
FWIW, my conlang Vozgian has a dental fricative [tT] (or rather, had it in an
earlier stage).
By the way, affricatives are properly called "affricates", if I'm not mistaken.
> I can almost 'hear' a k affricating(?) with a German ch, though it would
> take practice to pronounce it. (Actually, the stop would be farther
> back than an English k.) And I'm not sure what a voiced form would
> sound like...
Schytzerdütsch has it, as has already been noted by the eminent Mr. Cowan.
BTW A belated welcome to the List, Elyse.
Jan
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