tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jul 05 10:09:22 1997
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RE: Pronunciation
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Pronunciation
- Date: Sat, 5 Jul 97 16:48:11 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Duncan Barrett wrote:
> How do you pronounce the double glottal stop in words like yIja''egh (TKD,
> p. 35)?
>
> This question may sound a bit stupid but then so does pronouncing two ' s
> in a row (to me).
It's not a stupid question. It has come up before.
Okrand seems to pronounce doubled consonants a little longer than a single
consonant. You say {yIja'---} hold it ever so slightly, and then continue
{---'egh}. There should be no echo of the previous vowel as you would find at
the end of a word.
No, you don't say the consonant twice.
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