[lojban] Re: Piraha and SWH

[Pierre Abbat <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Saturday 21 August 2004 06:29, And Rosta wrote:
> zefram:
> > Apparently it's pronounced {pida'AN}.
>
> I would Lojbanize as {PIraxan} or {piraxAN}, since I think the <r>
> is a tap, i.e. an allophone of Lojban /r/, and [x], an allophone
> of /x/, is closer to [h] than is /T/, an allophone of /'/.

[T] isn't the only allophone of /'/, and AFAIK the choice is dialectal. I say 
[h], even in a word {fu'arka} which is a fu'ivla from a word with [T] in it. 
I think it should be {pira'AN}.

What do we do with "Xhosa", in which the 'X' represents a click to which there 
is no close phoneme in Lojban?

phma
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