Re: [lojban] To Polish fellow lojbanists

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Wednesday 29 September 2010 14:35:26 Krzysztof Sobolewski wrote:
> You're right... Except for {'} my language has all the necessary sounds -
> and many more. But I think I have this one figured out too - if I pronunce
> {'} as a *voiced* h (not present in Polish, so still needing some getting
> used to), it suddenly is very distinct :)

I'm not sure what you mean by "voiced h"; to me that's the second part of the 
Indic voiced aspirates, like the "h" in "Gandhi". But if you're voicing the 
Polish "ch", that's a sound that is considered rhotic in some languages (such 
as French) but not others (such as Arabic). Either way, {'} is specified to 
be unvoiced.

I looked up Czech and Ukrainian phonetics on Wikipedia, but their "h" is 
voiced. Try Totus's suggestion.

> Now, how people pronunce {y}... ;)

Russian has that sound in unstressed syllables, and Bulgarian has a separate 
letter for it, ъ (which can be stressed).

Pierre
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