----- Original Message -----
From: "Isaac Penzev" <isaacp@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: German and English (was Re: Losing languages ...)
> Tristan McLeay wrote:
>
>
> > On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Joe wrote:
> >
> > > That's OE |ea|[&a]>[i:], don't ask me how.
> >
> > &a > &@ > &: > E: > e: > i:. The phoneme marked & may be E *anyway*, so
it
> > could be even simpler.
>
> I don't think anybody knows for sure the exact phonetic value of OE |ea|
and
> |eo|. As for all the rest, I think Elliot's explanations with correcting
/a:/ to
> /aj/ are good.
AFAIK, it used to be written æa, which would indicate that it was [&]
> -- Yitzik
>