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Re: Origin of Estonian /7/

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Saturday, March 20, 2004, 10:09
At 06:26 20.3.2004, Trebor Jung wrote:

>In the Estonian language article at Wikipedia, it is said that Estonian o~ >is /1/ ("a high, central, unrounded vowel"). In the Estonian textbook I got >from the library, o~ was defined as "somewhere between the 'i' in 'pit' >[/I/, I assume] and 'u' in 'put' [/U/, I assume]" (? I'll have to take the >book out agaim). Thoughts, anyone? Where does /1/ come from?
Misunderstanding, since Russian /1/ and Estonian /7/ are used to render each other in transcription. Also an Anglo who0 uses /I/ will probably be understood! :) /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Truth, Sir, is a cow which will give [skeptics] no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull." -- Sam. Johnson (no rel. ;)