Re: Fricative Vowels (was: Latin -idus as from dH- too)

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 55247
Date: 2008-03-15

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Wordingham
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 7:15 PM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Fricative Vowels (was: Latin -idus as
from dH- too)


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> Fricative vowel ?
>
> like in which language ?

I use the X-SAMPA transliteration of IPA:

The Laozhai dialect of Gelao has [ts`z=] 'teach'.

You can horrify yourself by reading up on the main Yi dialect/language
- just as a taster you'll find four examples in Table 3.1 of
http://ling.uta.edu/~jerry/yi-bai.pdf - the words for 'urinate',
'press', 'eagle call' and 'baby excrement'.

Richard.

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Thanks, Richard.

I'm not horrified at all.
the vowel is the words you point at
is a kind of back unrounded mid vowel
like the one in a(bout)
but much further back.
No problem,
I can learn this language.
Arnaud
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