Re: OT: NATLANG: Romanian orthography question
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 24, 2003, 12:53 |
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:12:48AM +0200, Isaac Penzev wrote:
> Yes, it is an affricate. And it may be palatalised too: _unit,i-vã_
> [u"n_jits)_jv@] 'unite!'
What happened to the <i>? Is it just there to indicate the palatalization?
> Re _ã_ (a-breve) - some ppl say it is not a mere [@], but rather [V] or even
> [7].
Well, since I've seen all three of those given as the pronunciation of the
English short <u> in e.g. "cut", I'll just pronounce a-breve as if it were
a short <u> and call it correct. ;-)
>I often heard it as [7]. But it is clearly contrasted to _â_ and _î_ which
> is [i\] (barred i in CXS).
Uhm, "barred i in CXS"?? Oh, oh, you mean [i\] is the CXS equivalent of the
IPA barred i. Got it. :)
So I assume there is an etymological distinction between <â> and <î>, and that
at one time they represented two distinct sounds?
-Mark
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