Re: Phonetic contrast between lenis unvoiced and lenis voiced?

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:46:36 -0700 (PDT),
"benlizro@xxxxxxxxxx" <benlizro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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in sci.lang:

On Oct 17, 5:07 pm, "ranjit_math...@xxxxxxxxx"
<ranjit_math...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 16, 8:32 pm, "benli...@xxxxxxxxxx" <benli...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

What "should" Brahui be (in English)?

[br.Vhwi] is what it is to one Pakistani English speaker
(I've heard it only from one person).

Well this runs into more than one difficulty from an
English point of view. I think "brahooey" is probably
about the best one can do.

Without having thought about it, I was thinking ['bra(:)hwi]
when I read it. However, George van Driem has a PDF online
in which he gives the pronunciation as [bra:?u:i:]; it's
Chapter 14 of some book that I can't identify and is called
'Endangered Languages of South Asia'.

Brian
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