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[lojban-beginners] Re: Alveolar ¿ Coronal
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- Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Alveolar ¿ Coronal
- From: Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 15:12:43 -0300
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On 12/28/05, Tasci <lojban@synx.dyndns.org> wrote:
> I was trying to learn more about the pronunciation of c and s in lojban.
> I was under the impression that c was the English sh,
That is correct.
> but they say
> that's {tc} in the handbook.
Which handbook? Lojban {tc} corresponds to English "ch".
> It says here:
> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-download_wiki_attachment.php?attId=195&page=The+Lojban+Reference+Grammar
> that c is an "unvoiced coronal
> sibilant," and that s is an "unvoiced alveolar sibilant," but wikipedia
> here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_consonant
> says pretty clearly that Alveolar is a subset of Coronal.
Lojban {c} is the "voiceless palato-alveolar fricative" of the
wikipedia article.
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