Re: What's SHCH?

Quoting Emily Zilch <emily0@...>:

> { 20040723,0119 | Jean-François COLSON } "In Russian, there's a letter
> which is commonly transliterated as "shch" in English. "ch" is an
> affricate. But what is "shch"."
>
> It is a shorthand way to write the cluster sh /S/ (or perhaps we might
> buck the trend and mark it as the /s`/ it so often appears as) + ch
> /tS/ (or perhaps we might buck the trend and mark it as the /ts`/ it so
> often appears as). In some dialects, it is pronounced /s`:/ (i.e. a
> carefully geminated "sh") and might alternately be transliterated [ ssh
> ].
Russian has retroflexes? Given that the name quite possibly derives from Ruotsi,
I think this is conclusive evidence it's a dialect of Chinese!

                                                     Andreas