Re: Consonant clusters

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.

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