Re: Simafira: phonetics

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 21:30:27 -0600 Jesse Bangs <jaspax@...> writes:
> > There are five vowels - [a E i o u].  I'm putting them together to
> form
> > dipthongs, though I don't know if those technically count!  As an
> example,
> > there's an /eo/ sound that I borrowed from Baltimore...it's a very
> opened-up
> > /o/.  It's why Baltimoreans who are headed to the beach are
> sometimes
> > transcribed as "gaywin' downy ayshin" (say it out loud).
> Can you describe this phonetically?  When I mimic the accent (badly)
> I find myself making [ay].  Is that what you mean?
> Jesse S. Bangs     Pelíran
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Maybe it's the sound in Baltimorean/Marylander "no"?


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