Re: Kyrgyz was Re: Zetowvu / Ezotwuv (new conlang)

Christophe a écrit:

> Yet the difference is huge! [a~] is open front unrounded, [O~] open-mid back
> rounded. They have nothing alike except the nasality.
Hmm. I have a question I've been meaning to ask for some
time regarding French.

In my French speech (which admittedly isn't very good
grammatically/vocabularywise, but pretty okay pronunciationwise) I have 'matin' /mat&~/, 'un' /&~/,
'bon' /bO~/ and 'blanc' /blA~/.

To me /a~/ and /E~/ sounds like [A~] and [&~] (or perhaps
something in between [E] and [&]. [a~] sounds just hilarious.

Am I totally nuts here? Or is the Frenchmen's pronunciation
of /a/ a bit more back than IPA would like to admit? Or is
the Swedish /E/ and /&/ not really /E/ and /&/? What's
up here?

Daniel Andreasson

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