[Lexicog] The flapping in African languages creates a buzz

[Mike_Cahill at SIL.ORG]

True, but when you look at the UCLA site which discusses the actual sound
in question, it's not just a (voiced) bilabial trill, which indeed is the
small cap B, but it's "a bilabial trill, preceded by a dental stop, forming
a single unit." There's no single IPA symbol for voiceless bilabial trill,
and certainly not for this unit. But the way the article was phrased, the
simplification was actually inaccurate.

Mike Cahill

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12/14/2005 01:05 PM


The article is wrong on one point: the bilabial trill does not
await its moment. It has been in the IPA for many years as a small
capital B, in Unicode as U+0299.






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