Re: Origin of Estonian /7/

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^)
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