> .i ma verclibau do? what does verclibau mean? And wouldn't it be ".i xu ma verclibau do" as opposed to ".i ma verclibau do?" ?
- Luke Bergen On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:41 AM, tijlan <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/2/17 Luke Bergen <[email protected]>: > > does anyone else find that words with jy and cy in them are tricky to > > pronounce in such a way that the two letters sound different from one > > another? > > If I were to find it that way, probably I would have had the same > difficulty for zy & sy too. But I think I actually don't, at least for > individual sounds. > > > For instance, jarco. For some reason when I pronounce this it sounds > like > > there is very little difference between the two sounds. > > That may be because /c/ is in between a voiced consonant and a vowel, > making it harder to pronounce the voiceless consonant as such. But > that's something you can complain about in any human language. > Fortunately there is no "jarjo", so you don't have to worry too much > about being misheard of "jarco". > > mu'o mi'e tijlan > > > >
