Re: Y not? (was: Of Haa/hhet & other matters)

Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> On Saturday, January 22, 2005, at 02:03 , Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> > Quoting "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...>:
> >
> >> Of the many different uses of the letter |y|, I like best that Welsh use,
> >> since the other uses of |y| can be represented with other letters, but
> >> there's no other letter for that one.
> >
> > Needless to say, I, as a Swede, disagree; |y| is, as even the IPA accepts,
> >  to be
> > used for /y/! This moreover is the original use of the letter.
>
> Yes it was, but I assume you would not use the same argument for |c| = /k/
>   and |v| = /w/   ;)
You assume to much. I'm quite inclined to think of /k/ as the default reading of
|c|, and as for |v|, if I'm not mistaken, by the time it was accepted as a
letter separate from |u|, the Latin consonant was generally pronounced as [v].

> > For /@/ I like the Albanian |ë| - schwa sounds like the bastard offspring
> > of 'e' and 'ö' to me.
>
> Nah - we anglophones know nothing of 'ö' - but we kind of like [@]. The
> little sound ought to have its own simple letter. Why not?     ;)
Do as the Azeri and adopt the IPA 'reversed e' sign.

                                                         Andreas

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