Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

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> Barry Garcia wrote:
> > In Japanese, doesnt u (depending where it is, i havent studied
> it, but can
> > think of examples), and usually i (at least after /S/) tend to be very
> > very faintly pronounced anyway?
>
> Only word-finally or between voiceless consonants.
>
> > So, wouldnt it
> > not be unreasonable for Yoon to keep the /St/ she likes?\
>
> Yeah, just not /Sv/, that would still have to be /Siv/
>
Isn't the orthographical _f_ in Japanese an allophone of /h/ for after a
rounded front vowel and in actual fact a bilabial fricative, and _v_ (a
recently new sound added to spell some foreign words) the voiced version of
that?

Did these Japanese bilabials become labiodental in this interesting
Japanese-German fusion? :)

Imperative

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