Re: "to be" and not to be in the world's languages

I can't read that.

  It was   ecmb (where e = cyrillic <e>, c = cyrillic
<c> m = cyricillic "m" and b = cyrillic "soft sign"),

I assume it was pronounced /jes@mj/, similar to:

Zizn'  "life"  /Ziz@nj/


-Elliott

--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:

> On 3/28/06, Elliott Lash <erelion12@...>
> wrote:
> > yes, the paradigm was/is:
> >
> > jesm'
>
> So "I am", back when Russophones actually used the
> verb, was „Я есмъ"?
>
> Vanna?  I'd like to buy a vowel, please.  How does
> one pronounce that?
>  [jEsm_j=]?  [jEzmj]?
>
> --
> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
>

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