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

Garry Barcia wrote:
>
>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.
The close back unroundedn vowel is [M], in X-SAMPA at least.

A book on the Ottomans I read last year stated that the dotless i of Turkish
sounds like English "u" in eg "but". Now, this book was probably not very
reliable on linguistics, but I can only wonder what weird variety of English
the author speaks ...

                                                      Andreas

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