Re: Chevraqis: what they call other languages

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

> > Tepa = Teba
>
> Gá T'íppa
> [`gA 'teppa]
> [ts] for [t] in common pronunciation
Just to be sure that you all are getting it right, Tepa is pronounced
[ti-Ba] ([i-] is barred-i, right?). <e> is just the orthographic
convention I adopt for this sound. Also, Tepa has a well-developed
system of lenition, so phonemic voiceless stops are pronounced as
voiced fricatives intervocalically (and as voiced stops following
nasals, and voiceless fricatives before another voiceless stop.
Details are available at www.langmaker.com (Thanks, Jeffrey!)).

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga
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