Re: Russian phonetics question [Was: What's SHCH?]
| From: | Muke Tever <hotblack@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 24, 2004, 17:27 |
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On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:53:41 +0100, Stephen Mulraney
<ataltanie@...> wrote:
>> I believe - and can look up if people are actually interested - that
>> originally this letter represented the simpler cluster [ sht ], which
>> again would either be /St/ or /s't/ depending on your preferences.
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> That would make some sense: modern Bulgarians uses the letter for [St],
> I believe.
Additionally, the letter _is_ originally an /S/-/t/ ligature, its older
form having the descender centered. (Several cyrillic ligatures for some
reason have one letter stacked on top of the other.)
*Muke!
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