Re: [QUESTION] What does IPA L-tilde stand for?
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 29, 2002, 10:08 |
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In a message dated 04/29/02 2:58:46 AM, ijzeren_jan@YAHOO.CO.UK writes:
<< When browsing through the set of IPA-characters, I found a strange thing:
l (lowercase) with tilde. There is no description of it, and the X-SAMPA
equivalent [5] is somehow missing in the X-SAMPA table.
Does anyone know what kind of sound this is supposed to be? >>
Velarized [l]. How this is different from the velar "l" (capital l, [L]
in IPA), I have no idea.
-David
"fawiT, Gug&g, tSagZil-a-Gariz, waj min DidZejsat wazid..."
"Soft, driven, slow and mad, like some new language..."
-Jim Morrison
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