Re: Ukrainian pronunciation question

What's the same?  Are you saying that [1] and [I] are allophones of
the same phoneme in Ukrainian?

On 10/5/05, veritosproject@gmail.com <veritosproject@...> wrote:
> They're the same.
>
> On 10/5/05, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> > Warning: Unicode ho!
> >
> > Ukrainian friend of mine says that the Ukrainian letter И (Russian
> > |i|, looks like a backwards N) is pronounced the same as the Russian
> > letter Ы (looks like |bl|) -  that is, as [1].  But I found a
> > Ukrainian alphabet guide in X-SAMPA
> > (http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/u/uk/ukrainian_alphabet.htm)
> > which says that И is [I].   So if someone on here could clarify, I'd
> > appreciate it.
> >
> > Дякую!
> >
> > --
> > Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
> >
>

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