Re: Danish: tonal suffices?

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 22:51:35 +0200 daniel andreasson
<daniel.andreasson@...> writes:
> Hm. I don't think the world is ready yet. I could try some IPA,
> but I don't know what symbols I would use. I usually don't use
> the pharyngeals that much. Whoever said that Danish has just
> three phonemes (a schwa, a glide and a glottal stop) was wrong.
> It has a pharyngeal approximant (the "backwards eating" sound,
> aka "throwing up" :) as well which covers around 90% of the phoneme
> inventory. I know I'm good at that sound. ;)
>
> Daniel
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You mean an approximant `ayin?
That was exactly how the "Teach Yourself Arabic" book i tried to use a
few years ago described the sound.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "survival is insufficient."