Re: New to the list
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 21, 2000, 13:01 |
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At 12:21 20.6.2000 +0200, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>It is identified with 'a' in all languages I know who lack this vowel
>(that's too say the Romance languages and Japanese). It is done in
>Esperanto too (it's not that nothing is said in the Fundamento that there
>are no rules. They just have been settled by the users and are now followed
>by the majority, and now you begin to find them in grammars).
The American English _cut_ vowel is "ö" in Swedish, and that has nothing to
do with Russian unstressed ë sounding like "ö" to us in most cases!
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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