Re: ZBB: Another "What language is this song in" thread.

Henrik Theiling skrev:

>>It's definitely [O] sometimes.
>
>
> Probably the Arabic script doesn't offer enough vowel signs for
> Persian.
>
> **Henrik
Basically quantitative vowel distinctions have been replaced by
qualitative distinctions in Persian:

|a| is /&/
|i| is /e/
|u| is /o/
|a:| is /Q/ NB
|i:| is /i/
|u:| is /u/

There is an [A] allophone of /Q/.

BTW |q| is /R/ or /G\/.

--

/BP 8^)>
--
Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

         Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant!
                                             (Tacitus)