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

Peter Clark wrote:

> > (Even better, Yitzik tell us that "y" should be not /1/ but /M/-- unrounded
> > high-back-- nice counterpart to /u/ in a harmony-system.)
>         Actually, Yitzik, if you are still reading this, were you refering to
> <russian>y</russian> or <roman>y</roman>? If you were refering to
> <russian>y</russian>, then I can easily see that being /M/. Or are you saying
> that it has both /M/ and /u/?
I meant <lat>y</lat> which stands for <cyr>ы</cyr> in transliteration. It sound
like [M].
On the other hand, <cyr>у</cyr> (that is <lat>u</lat>) is definitely [u].

Yitzik.