Re: OT: NATLANG: Romanian orthography question

Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> 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?
Written in all environments. There are plenty of examples of [s] + front vowel,
making the other solution inadequate. The only counterexamples are some family
names wherein |si| + V is pronounced /S/ + V, for conservative spelling reasons.

> > a-breve is like a schwa
>
> Aren't there two central V in Rom.?  one approx. [1] (barred i)
> written....how?;
Yes, there's /@/ (more or less), written ã (a-breve, properly), and /1/ written
/î/ or /â/.


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