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[lojban-beginners] Re: proper pronunciation of apostrophe



de'i li 20 pi'e 08 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. tony hall .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> I'm not sure I understand the apostrophe correctly. Is it pronounced with an
> 'h' sound:
> 
> .au is pronounced likeÂ"ow"
> 
> is .a'u pronounced like "ahoo"?
.skamyxatra

That is correct.  As a variant, the apostrophe may also be pronounced as any
unvoiced fricative not already used in Lojban, e.g., [Î], the sound of the soft
"th" in "thing" (not the hard "th" of "this").

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

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