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Re: Fricative vowels

From:nicole perrin <nicole.eap@...>
Date:Monday, December 6, 1999, 1:47
FFlores wrote:
> > I got this from a non-affiliated conlanger friend of mine: > > > In Sweden, they were first noticed in the place called Viby (which I have no > > idea whatsoever of where is). Vibrant/approximant vowels, if I got it > > correctly [...] > > In other words, they were pronounced, I think, like with an r-ish, or z-ish > > sound to them; perhaps simultaneously pronounced with r or z, or perhaps > > just pronounced with a vibrating tongue. > > I told him there are also such vowels in Mandarin, IIRC.
Really? How are they written in pinyin? (Doesn't sound familiar - not denying it, just curious)
> Can > anybody confirm or correct this? And what about the Sweden vowels? > I think this feature is exclusive of Viby (wherever it is); do you > know of any other places? >
Nicole -- nicole.eap@snet.net http://nicole.conlang.org