Re: Pharingials, /l/ vs. /r/ in Southeast Asia

At 11:21 6.2.2004, Andreas Johansson wrote:

>'Cerebral stop'? Explanation of origin of that term?
Sloppy translation of the Sanskrit term for 'retroflex'.

>It may amuse you, Ray, btw, that a book of my father's on Qin Shi Huangdi, in
>the section on pinyin pronunciation, transcribes 'sh' as 'sjr'. This of course
>assumes the convention that 'sj' in transcribed Furn is [S].
That's a lovely one!  How does it distinguish _q_ and _x_, since they
oughtta both end up as _tj_ in transkribed Furn.

/BP 8^)
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