Re: CHAT: Is there a conlang inspired in Old English?
| From: | bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 8, 2002, 22:18 |
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--- Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> wrote: >
> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 09:52:38 +0100
> > From: =?iso-8859-1?q?bnathyuw?=
> <bnathyuw@...>
> >
> > --- Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> wrote:
> >
> > [Icelandic and English don't have front rounded
> vowels.]
> >
> > as for english, true, except in dialects.
> birmingham
> > is [b8mIN@m] in birmingham, and scottish english
> /u/
> > often tends towards [y], ( eg [byk] for book )
> > presumably in line with lowland scots |ui| ( buik
> )
>
> SAMPA [8] is central rounded --- not front. And
> besides, that's how
> I've always thought the city's name was pronounced.
> (Danish schools
> aim for an RP-like accent when teaching English).
>
> What is it in real RP?
>
oops . . . clearly my sampa's already rusty.
i would transcribe the usual vowel as /3/, but i could
be being led astray be ipa. basically the long schwa
the birmingham pronunciation _is_ stereotypically
front rounded
bn
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