Re: Goa'uld? and 2 other questions.

On Fri, 19 May 2000 19:32:44 EDT, Iisem@AOL.COM wrote:

>In a message dated 5/18/00 6:32:51 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
>spacey@UNNATURAL.DEMON.CO.UK writes:
>
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> 2) Do any natlangs feature "stuttered" consonants in their phoneme
> inventory, i.e. a consonant duplicated very quickly, but with a full
> (silent) release rather than being geminated/ambisyllabic?  I'm considering
> using a few such sounds to a new lang, but I'm doubtful about how
> naturalistic they sound.
>  >>
>
>I don' t know for certain, but i do believe on the movie 'dances with wolves'
> the native american language used a stuttered  consonant in 'chumane t'tonka
>owachi... ' (many appologies to any native americans out there for my gross
>rendition of the phonetics as i remember them) but i think that is how it
>went... might be something to check out though.
I believe it was "shungmanitu tanka"; the two t's belong to separate words.
(The "un" and "an" are nasal versions of "u" and "a").

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