Subject: Re: [lojban] Some questions

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:02:09 -0500 (EST)

Avital Oliver scripsit:

> > and don't know how to distinguish samekh from sin.
> The average Israeli would probably laugh at you .u'i.

Obviously the Right Thing is to pronounce samekh as [s] and sin as [K}; i.e.,
voiceless lateral fricative!

(It must have had a lateral component at one time, as in the classic example of
Eng. "balsam" from a cognate of B-Sin-M.)

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