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 | | LaFlesche, however, describes it as representing a voiceless interdental fricative (theta, or the sound of th in with), which seems to have been the pronunciation of /s/ favored by at least some residents of the Omaha village in which LaFlesche was raised, WiNj^a'ge. |
 | | In spite of this they contrasted in Omaha-Ponca, for whereas /z/ was a voiced interdental fricative (the nominal pronunciation of English edh), the /r/ usually written edh is a retroflex lateral, rather closer to the alveolar tap that often replaces edh in American English dialects. |
 | | Otherwise, voiceless fricatives tend to be morpheme initial and in clusters before voiceless sounds, while voiced ones tend to be morpheme internal and in clusters before voiced sounds. |
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