Re: "Igbo"
| From: | Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 14, 2004, 23:39 |
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I always got the impression that the 'gb' is a single consonant, but very
difficult to 'hear' by Europeans. I guess you just misinterpreted that
'gb' - is there a SAMPA version of this sound? - as a /b/.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trebor Jung" <treborjung@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 12:02 AM
Subject: "Igbo"
> At school today, I met a Nigerian who informed me the pronunciation of the
> name of his native language Igbo is [ibu], to my surprise. I thot it's
> [igb)o]... Or is this just a dialectal variation?
>
> Trebor.
>
> "The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
> --Chinese proverb