Re: OT: Afrikaans
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 2, 2003, 13:41 |
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En réponse à Henrik Theiling :
>Hmm, I only know the diphthongs /e:I/ and /o:U/ for these. Which
>dialect would that be?
I wouldn't know. I heard that once on TV but forgot to ask my friend what
strange dialect that person used...
>Really? I always thought I heard /@Y/. First unrounded (and slightly
>different position, but that's not too far off), second rounded.
Do you have an unrounded schwa? Because to my ear /@/ is also a nice
approximation of the first element of the diphtongue (although a little too
high), but schwas in French are always pronounced rounded, so my ear is
rather biased that way :) . Still, the first element to me sounds
definitely like [9] (to give you an example, to me "ui": oignon sounds like
[9Y] to me, but the plural "uien" most often sounds like ["9j@]. As you
see, I tend to hear the second element derounded, but the first one
completely keeps its rounding).
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.
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