[lojban-beginners] Re: Pronunciation: a major problem in spreading lojban

[Ivo Doko <ivo.doko@gmail.com>]

2009/6/2 Leonardo Castro <leolucas1980@gmail.com>:
> Is the Croatian [r] voiced or unvoiced.
> I can't realize the difference between a "voiced r" and a "r"
> spoken at the same time as a schwa.


I don't know whether [r] is voiced or unvoiced, but I probably rushed
it a bit when I said "at the same time". The schwa comes before the
[r] in the consonant clusters. It's easy to notice the presence of
schwa before [r] if you compare the pronunciation of various Croatian
words. Here's a very neat example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Republika_Hrvatska.ogg
Note the pronunciation of the first [r] in "Republika" and of the
consonant cluster "hrv" in "Hrvatska" - it's very easy to hear a schwa
in-between [h] and [r] there.