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Re: Russian phonetics question [Was: What's SHCH?]

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Saturday, July 24, 2004, 17:27
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. > > 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! -- http://frath.net/ (my website) http://kohath.livejournal.com/ http://kohath.deviantart.com/ http://wiki.frath.net/ (conlangs and concultures)