Re: Vowel question, suggestion?
| From: | Jesse Bangs <jaspax@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 6, 2001, 5:45 |
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On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 00:04:23 -0400 Muke Tever
<alrivera@...> writes:
> In another of the new Hadwan descendants I'm working on, I've
> discovered a
> diphthong spelled <öy> (and long <öyh>).
>
> This arises historically as <ai> becomes <oi> /OI/. When there's
> original
> <aio> /AIU/ it would become /OIy/, which is impossible for me to
> pronounce,
> so I called it <öy>.
If the "normal" outcome would be [OIy], it seems logical to me that the
[I] and [y] would collapse, giving [OY]. That's the same thing as [OI],
but with lip rounding maintained throughout the diphthong.
When I try to say [OY], I keep accidentally fronting the back vowel, so
that would give, ah, [öY], where [ö] is my cheap substitute for rounded
[E] since I can't remember the real symbol in SAMPA. That's another
possibility.
Jesse S. Bangs Pelíran
jaspax @juno.com
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