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Re: Consonant clusters

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, July 8, 2002, 22:18
En réponse à Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>:

> > My Gabwe does that... Proto-Gabwe had /w/ and /l/, but then /l/ in > Standard Tierean Gabwe shifted to a velar lateral, and then to a velar > approximant.
Hehe, Maggel has a separate velar lateral, distinguished from both the alveolar and palatal laterals and from the velar approximant :)))) . It also has /r/. That was the hardest for me,
> distinguishing /r/ and /R/ (or /M\/ as you wrote it). >
/R/ is a voiced uvular fricative, the French |r| basically, not a velar approximant (unless you're using another transcription than X-SAMPA, although I would find such a transcription strange: I don't find anything very rhotic in the velar approximant, I find it more comparable to /G/ - for good reasons ;))) -). I personally find /r/ and /M\/ very different (but I agree that /R/ and /M\/ are probably more difficult to distinguish). Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.