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Re: OT: Afrikaans

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, June 2, 2003, 13:41
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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