[Tlhingan-hol] qepHom 2015 with Marc Okrand

[David Holt]

> From: robyn at flyingstart.ca> 
> It's common for English and French speakers to mispronounce I as Iy also, in any position. It's not hard for us to say, just> hard to remember for some. You hear a lot of veeSov and jeeyaj, or jeeyazh from the French speakers, because they> don't have the harder dj sound.
I get a lot of English speakers that don't speak any French, but still say zheeyazh.  It seems many English speakers develop a unconscious idea that all non-English j's are pronounced as if they were French.
Jeremy

 		 	   		  
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