Re: Piraha and SWH

["Craig Daniel" <ragnarok@pobox.com>]

> > 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}.

I think it's more useful to give them a culture word of their own 
such as "prenrpira'a".

And I agree with la .pier. about the ', even though I always say it 
as [T] even when it's clearly meant to be [h].

 - mi'e .kreig.daniyl.