The
transcription of the Georgian letter ვ is
v.
'ვ' is pronounced like English [v] in 'vein'.
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Speaker 1:
Speaker 2:
The
upper teeth and the lower lip are engaged in production of the
consonant 'ვ' . The upper part of the tongue
is tense and a wide resonance area is created. The back part
of the tongue is raised, the bulk moves backwards, the tip of
the tongue is slightly retracted from the front lower teeth.
It is traced out with one movement of the hand and is written between the three lower lines: movement of the hand begins below the upper middle line, goes upwards, drawing an open circle from left to right between the upper and lower middle lines, goes on ellipsewise down to the lower line and ends by drawing a semicircle between the lower middle and lower lines with a tip slightly rounded to the right.
© Manana Kock Kobaidze & Karina Vamling
Malmoe University, Sweden