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

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Friday, April 6, 2001, 19:06
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 21:59:37 -0800, Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...> > wrote: > > >CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes: > >>My book on Turkish says dotless i is "i as in nation," which I find > >>utterly helpful, since for me "ti" goes to [S] and "on" to [@n]. <sigh> > > > >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. > > But it does: [M] > > SAMPA actually has representations for all the IPA sounds, though the more > advanced ones are rather clumsy (taking up more than one space); to see > them all, go to http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/x-sampa.htm > > But I didn't know that Turkish vowel was a back unrounded sound; I didn't > know it because the few text-books I had read didn't use transcriptions (at > least not standard ones), and didn't seem to find it important enough to > describe this sound properly. Irritating how back unrounded vowels get > misrepresented in Western teaching... > > But that makes more sense - "Istanbul" has a dotless i, which is now > logical to me in light of its original "Constantinopolis" name. But > wouldn't it really be pronounced "Istambul", though? - [Mstambul] or > something like that (don't know where the stress falls). >
Actually it has a dotted i, so it's pronounced [istambul]
>
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