r/linguisticshumor • u/NebularCarina I hāpī nei au i te vānaŋa Rapa Nui (ko au he repa Hiva). • Feb 17 '25

Phonetics/Phonology Pronunciation of <c>

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u/Fast-Alternative1503 waffler Feb 18 '25

bro I thought it was /l/ lol

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u/NonaL13 Feb 18 '25

oh nah it's a click lol, dental click (formed by putting the tip of your tongue against your top teeth and sucking it back) (and variants on it are represented as c plus other letters), actually if you squint and totally ignore all sensible phonetics it kinda sorta sounds like a ch.

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u/Fast-Alternative1503 waffler Feb 18 '25

The cross section of the tongue also looks like a C when pronouncing it. if you include the connection from root to lower teeth as tongue anyway.

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u/NonaL13 Feb 18 '25

yeah honestly it's possibly the most hinged use of the letter c on this list