Javier BF eskribiw:
> But the choices made are arbitrary [...]
> Besides, Spanish mid e and mid o
> sound distinctly different from French open and close e's
and o's
> Yet so far there's no
> IPA symbol for those distinct vowels, featured in
> the third most spoken language as well as in others
> Another common vowel sound
> for which there is no IPA symbol is the central a,
> which is the kind of a vowel featured in languages such
> as Spanish and Hindi. The IPA symbol [a] stands for
> the lowest _front_ vowel and sounds too front for
> my Spanish speaker ear, as if it had some amount of
> e-quality
All the said above is true concerning Russian vowels too.
From this description I understood that they have 100%
congruent mapping to Spanish ones!
-- Yitzik