Re: Betreft: Re: Jaars IPA Helper

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:08:33 +0100, Rob Nierse <rnierse@...> wrote:

>BTW, is anyone familiar with Lakhota? I have a book that states that
>Lakhota uses five (!) states of the glottis:
>plain, ejective, aspirated, voiced and unvoiced.
>Is that true? Are there more languages that have so many
>distinctions? Or more?
I have an old book printed by the United States Indian Service, "Singing
Sioux Cowboy", with text in both Lakota and English. It includes a brief
description of the alphabet used in the book, which distinguishes between
plain, aspirated, and ejective stops. There are also two voiced stops, b
and g, but I can't find anything that might be described as "unvoiced"
contrasting with the other four. The fricatives, by the way, can be voiced,
voiceless, or ejective! Here's a summary:

             stops              fricatives         vowels
voiced       b           g      z   j   g          a   e   i   o   u
voiceless    p   t   c   k      s  ^s  ^h   h      aN      iN      uN
aspirated    p`  t`  c`  k`
ejective     p'  t'  c'  k'     s' ^s' ^h'

laterals         l
nasals       m   n
approximants w       y

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