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Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

From:D Tse <exponent@...>
Date:Friday, April 6, 2001, 8:03
> > << The World's Writing Systems book I have says that the turkish > dotless I is > > "close, back, unrounded" vowel. In the kirschenbaum system, it's /u-/. > > Apparently SAMPA doesnt have a way of representing it. >> > > No matter how much I unround my lips, the upside down "m" (the sound in > question) always sounds like [u] still. It seems like I can make > the sound > independent of whatever my lips want to do. Maybe if I heard > someone do it... > > -David >
There's the horribly useful IPA Help program at sil.org but its 50 Mb... It has samples of ... perhaps 97% of the IPA sounds. Imperative