Re: Schwa vowel, which letter?
| From: | Matt Pearson <mpearson@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 7, 1998, 16:50 |
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>On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Matt Pearson wrote:
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>> Yes, but I don't think Herman was talking about the Sequoyah
>> syllabary. It's actually the standard Latin transcription of
>> Cherokee which uses "v" to represent a vowel - viz. a back-central
>> nasalised vowel, represented in IPA by an upside-down "v" with a
>> tilde over it.
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>Is this the same sound as French "un"?
More or less. Curiously, this is the only nasal vowel in Cherokee;
all the others are oral. So unlike in French, nasalisation of vowels
is not a distinctive feature.
Matt.
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