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Re: Ng'and'ana

From:Elliott Belser <renyard@...>
Date:Thursday, January 24, 2002, 1:31
>On Tuesday, January 22, 2002, at 07:28 , Elliott Belser wrote: > >>Right then. I do not know how to classify letter sounds, so help me >>with that... > >Peter Ladefoged's *A Course in Phonetics* is what we used in school. I >found it to be accessible to the beginner and also one of those books that >grows with you as you learn more. A worthy purchase. > >>ae (pronouced like the 'ay' in 'way') >>a (pronounced like the 'a' in 'father') >>e (like the 'e' in 'left') >>i (like the 'ee' in 'see') >>o (like the 'o' in 'know') >>u (like the 'oo' in 'food') >>y (like the 'i' in 'sigh'), sometimes spelled 'ay' > >In terms of classification, you've got: > >ae /ej/ mid front unrounded to high front unrounded diphthong >a /a/ low back unrounded >e /e/ mid front unrounded >i /i/ high front unrounded >o /o/ mid back rounded >u /u/ high back rounded >y /aj/ low back unrounded to high front unrounded diphthong > >The first column is your orthography, the second is International Phonetic >Alphabet (IPA) phonemic notation, and the third is a simplified list of >the articulatory features of each phone. You can probably figure out what >the terms mean by introspection, although people at the bus stop might >look at you strangely. ;)
Okay... question. Is a dipthong 'two vowels of a language spoken as one sound?' Because I don't think that the engandan ae and y are dipthongs, I think that they're their own characters.

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Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>