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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: The @ sign: help
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Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 05:27:55 GMT
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In article <3onvps$me7@ikarus.rz.tu-clausthal.de>,
Stephan Baitz <baitz@immr.tu-clausthal.de> wrote:

>The 4 l's are in fact only two consonants (i.e. two sounds).
>The 'consonant' ll represents a voiceless, aspirated l-sound
>(I hope this is expressed correctly enough, I'm no linguist).

Close enough.  Technically, it's a voiceless lateral fricative,
but a voiceless l (aspirated or not) is as close as most non-
Welsh speakers can come.

Hwyl fawr!

Da ap Gwilym



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