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An Introduction to Spoken Kashmiri by Braj B. Kachru The tongue tip is curled back. It articulates with the hard palate. The t, th, and d are retroflex stops. These sounds are similar to the initial sounds of the Hindi-Urdu words ta:t ‘gunny bag’, thand ‘cold’ dar ‘fear’, respectively. (iv) Velar t tga pear kot boy o:t flour th thi:kh all right, good ?:th eight thu:l egg(s) d d?:j; stretcher od half (mas.) bod big (mas., sing.) The back of the tongue articulates with soft palates; k, kh and g are velar stops. These sounds are similar to initial sounds in the Hindi-Urdu words ka:m ‘work’, kha:na: ‘food’ and ga:na ‘song’ respectively. Affricates k kus who kan ear pakun to walk kul tree kh khan (you) dig khasun to climb li:khun to write akh one (numeral) g ga:d fish ka:g0r Kashmiri firepot rag vein gNph cave gar0 home Affricates, as well as stops, are produced by a complete closure of the vocal tract at some point. However, the realese of the closure of an affricate is slow, compared with that of a stop. There © 2006 Braj B. Kachru (http://kachru.com) 16 http://koshur.org/SpokenKashmiri
An Introduction to Spoken Kashmiri by Braj B. Kachru are three types of affricates: (1) the voiceless unaspirated ts and c;, (2) voiceless aspirated tsh and c;h and (3) voiced unaspirated j;. These are further divided into the following groups, on the basis of the place or articulation. (i) Alveolar tip of the tongue touches the upper teeth. The ts and tsh are alveolar affricates. ts tso:r four b?:ts member(s) of a family k?ts how many tser sparrow tah tsha to search dNtah to handful pritshun to ask (ii) Palato-alveolar These are produced by touching the blade of the tongue to the front part of hard palate. The release is very gradual. These sounds are similar to the initial sounds in the Hindi-Urdu ch;a:l ‘gait’, c;ha:l ‘skin’, and j;a:l ‘net’. Nasals c; c;on to drink tsNc;i breads, chaptis ko:c;i lane koc; raw(mas.sing) c;h c;hapa:vun to print c;hu is pac;h a fortnight, two weeks lac;h one hundred thousands ac;hibal Achabal (place name) j; j;a:n good j;arn0 stream j;a:pa:n Japan bij;li: electricity j;aj; judge( of a court) At the phonetic level, there are four nasals in Kashmiri: m, n, n’, and . In the phonological descriptions of the language, these have been reduced to only two, /m/ and /n/. The occurs only © 2006 Braj B. Kachru (http://kachru.com) 17 http://koshur.org/SpokenKashmiri
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An Introduction to Spoken Kashmiri
Page 3 and 4: A Basic Course and Referene Manual
Page 5 and 6: PREFACE An Introduction to Spoken K
Page 7: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS An Introduction to
Page 10 and 11: SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS [ ] phone
Page 12 and 13: An Introduction to Spoken Kashmiri
Page 14 and 15: PREFACE I An Introduction to Spoken
Page 16 and 17: 2 A An Introduction to Spoken Kashm
Page 18 and 19: 4 A 5 A An Introduction to Spoken K
Page 20 and 21: 8 A 9 A An Introduction to Spoken K
Page 24 and 25: 15 A An Introduction to Spoken Kash
Page 36 and 37: 41 GRANNY 42 HABBA 43 GULAM 44 ZIND
Page 48 and 49: II. THE SOUNDS OF KASHMIRI Introduc
Page 50 and 51: (v) N and N: are lower mid, back vo
Page 52 and 53: (iv) u: and u (v) o: and o Nasalize
Page 58 and 59: Glides An Introduction to Spoken Ka
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