Re: Rounded /j/?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 30, 1999, 3:14 |
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Danny Wier wrote:
> I meant to ask if there's an *unrounded* verson of /w/, that is, a glide
> from IPA inverted <m>
There's a symbol for it in the IPA, but I don't know of any natlangs
with it. I have it in some dialects of Watya'i'sa, written <gy>, but in
most that's the same as <y>, that is /j/. It took me a while to get
that without making it a fricative.
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