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Re: IPA (Was: Re: Hello, I'm new too)

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Monday, October 23, 2000, 21:47
jesse stephen bangs wrote:

> Huh? I've always thought that the curly-tailed [z] was the correct IPA > symbol for the Spanish sound. It's a voiced palatal fricative, just > barely different from the voiced palatal approximant [j]. I care because > my conlang has a phonemic difference between them! Any more info on this?
The curly-tail-c (unvoiced) and curly-tail-z (voiced) are the Polish and Mandarin sounds, which are marked by the tongue position: the tip is behind the lower teeth. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@...> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein