Re: Is that Ladino?
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 2, 2004, 16:51 |
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On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:44:51 +0200, Shaul Vardi <vardi@...> wrote:
> Ykrîn = Ukraine, of course. Y = long u, just like the Russian
> (and Ukrainian) letter it looks like! Î = long i.
> I.e. pronounce ookrine.
Define what you mean with "long i"; the most natural assumption for me
is [i:], but by the pronunciation example you gave, I presume
something more like [aj], i.e. what is called "long i" in (perhaps) a
US middle-school classroom.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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