Re: OT: NATLANG: Romanian orthography question
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 24, 2003, 8:20 |
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Mark J. Reed scripsit:
> > On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:
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> > > X-SAMPA /ts)/
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> But the Romanian sound is an affricate, yes?
Yes, it is an affricate. And it may be palatalised too: _unit,i-vã_
[u"n_jits)_jv@] 'unite!'
Re _ã_ (a-breve) - some ppl say it is not a mere [@], but rather [V] or even
[7]. I often heard it as [7]. But it is clearly contrasted to _â_ and _î_ which
is [i\] (barred i in CXS).
-- Yitzik
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