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Re: Your Help Appreciated

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>
Date:Monday, May 8, 2000, 13:35
* John Mietus <sirchuck@...> [000508 12:54]:
> Hello, > > Well, I knew I was a total amateur in this, but I'm sorry I've stirred up > such controversy by my (now rather pathetic, I realize) attempts to explain > the sounds of my proto-root language. Here's a stack of replies: >
[..]
> Then, Nik Taylor spake, saying: > > > John Mietus wrote: > >> Yes, a non-nasal /m/ where the lips do not actually touch. > > > > Is there nasalization involved? > > Not really...I originally thought of it as a "v" sound where there is no > dental element, hence the orthographic "vh".
Hmm... maybe you mean an approximant v, like script v in Norwegian? t.