Re: OT: NATLANG: Romanian orthography question

Adam Walker wrote:

> --- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> > What sounds do the S and T with comma below
> > represent?
> > Also the A with breve?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Mark
>
> s-undercomma is like "sh"
> t-undercomma is like "ts"
written in all environments?  or are s/t automatically S/ts before front
vowels?
I'm learning more about Romanian than I probably want to know from various
posters to Cybalist these days, one of them I suspect quite certifiable at
least from a linguistic POV..... (and the despair of the moderator :-))) )
Lots of interesting but ultimately inconclusive discussion about Dacian/
Illyrian substatum, relationship with Albanian etc. etc.

> a-breve is like a schwa
Aren't there two central V in Rom.?  one approx. [1] (barred i)
written....how?; the other a real schwa, which I think is the a-breve.  The
Romanians on Cybalist use ã for one, â for the other IIRC; it's not always
clear what's what..........
>

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