Re: Another new lang

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Raymond Brown wrote:

> The Welsh 'r' is always trilled.  Normally it's an alveoloar (or apical)
> trill; but some speakers in the north use a uvular trill (yes - a trill,
> _not_ the modern French uvular approximant).  I guess these speakers must
> use an aspirated uvular trill for 'rh', tho I confess I've not heard the
> sound.
I have; when I was in North Wales trying to learn Welsh I was
complimented on my mastery of it. They're used to English speakers
who can't seem to learn [R] or [?] (whatever you spell it as in IPA,
I write it "[devoiced R]" in the ASCII-IPA representation of
Valdyan). I happen to have a natural uvular 'r' :-)

   Irina

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