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

On Tuesday 25 February 2003 9:14 pm, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à Joe <joe@...>:
> > > Which nasals are being merged?  /E~/ and /9~/?
> >
> > I'd expect it to be /a~/ and /O~/ they sound much the same to me.
>
> But not to any French-speaking person in the world! They sound awfully
> different to me!!
>
Really?  I struggle telling the difference.  /9~/ is as in <un>, right?  And
/E~/ as in <matin>?  They don't sound anything alike to me.  Stupid phonemic
differences between languages.

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