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Re: Tiktaalik

To: david.marjanovic@gmx.at, DML <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: Tiktaalik
From: Tommy Tyrberg <tommy.tyrberg@norrkoping.mail.telia.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:00:50 +0200
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At 00:37 2006-04-06, David Marjanovic wrote:

I have a different question: pronunciation. One should think that how to pronounce *Tiktaalik* is quite obvious, except maybe where to put the stress. But the article explains the pronunciation as "tic täl' ik". What is that supposed to mean? It's one of those English dictionary transcriptions, right?

Must be since "ä" does not exist in Inuit. "aa" is a long open a. Inuit ortography is ultimately more or less based on danish and so the spelling is fairly sane, i e the words pronounce more or less as spelled.

Tommy Tyrberg

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