Re: Revised Eastern Vowel Orthography

Andrew Smith wrote, "I'm not sure if /P/ here is p or pf or something else.
 NZMaori has the letters p and wh, with wh pronounced /f/ nearly
universally.  Rarotongan Maori uses f for this letter."

I thought that [wh] was the same letter which in IPA is written as Gk. phi,
which I guess is what was meant by P. As in the Japanese 'f', which is made
bilabially (like an F pronounced with lips instead of upper teeth and lower
lips) - the Japanese 'f' is the sound Japanese h becomes before /u/.

The voiced equivalent of phi is written with Gk. be:ta in IPA.

Has the Maori P > f in modern speech?

BB
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