Re: Uusisuom language (Online lesson)

Thanks for helping me try to clear this up.

'y' is pronounced like 'oo' in 'bOOt'. It is perhaps more rounded than the
Finnish version. Just make the lips into a perfectly round shape and make
the 'oo' sound. The german 'u' is a fair approximation.

'u' is pronounced like the 'oo' in 'tOOk'. This would seem to correspond
with the 'y' sound in Finnish.

Apologies for any misunderstanding and many thanks. Lesson Three will be
available online tomorrow and I will post it here when it is ready.

Daniel
daniel44@btinternet.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "jesse stephen bangs" <jaspax@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: Uusisuom language (Online lesson)


Frank George Valoczy sikayal:

> >
> > u is pronounced like the 'oo' sound in the word 'tOOk' while 'y' is
> > pronounced like the 'oo' sound in 'bOOt'. The mouth is far more rounded
for
> > the latter and the two sounds are quite distinct and different.
>
> Now I am very confused...
>
> I guess to ask it as simply as possible: are or are not /u/ and /y/
> pronounced as in Finnish?
They are not, according to the information given, but there seems to be
some confusion.  Let's clarify this:

There are three phonetic values in question here, whose IPA symbols are
[y], [u], and [U].  These vowels correspond to the following sounds in the
following languages:

[y]: Finnish {y}, French {u} in {lune}, German {ü} (u-umlaut)
[u]: Finnish {u}, English {oo} in {boot}, German {u}
[U]: English vowel in took, could, hood, etc.

Now, with which of these are the Uusonian {u} and {y} associated?


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
"It is of the new things that men tire--of fashions and proposals and
improvements and change.  It is the old things that startle and
intoxicate.  It is the old things that are young."
-G.K. Chesterton _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_
Conlanger code: CLI> l%p+++ cS:R:N:H a++ y n18d:6 X+++ A-- E-- L-- N2.5
Idmp k++ ia-- p+ m++ o+++ P d++ b++ Yivríndil

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