Re: An incongruent orthography: Maggel
| From: | Levi Tooker <nerd525@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 8, 2002, 8:51 |
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> "Dark" or "hard" usually AFAIK means a voiced
> consonant is either
> velarized, retroflexed or palatalized in phonemic
> contrast with other
> "plainer" voiced consonants. I dunno if this right
> or not... ::pokes
> Dirk/Kou/JCowan/etc.:: Heeeelp...
On the contrary, at least when speaking about Russian,
palatalized consonants are usually called the "soft"
ones and the unpalatalized counterparts are deemed "hard".
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