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Re: Biwa (was: YAC: ...)

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 31, 2000, 22:47
En réponse à jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>:

> > Problem here is that I'm not sure which IPA symbols are [2], [9], and > [H]. This design, however, makes more sense that the last. The phoneme > /}/ is very highly marked in the worlds languages and so probably > wouldn't > arise spontaneously, so it's better to posit that the original language > had it as well. (Or suppose some sort of general backing or unrounding > rule, but you don't seem to have that.) >
/2/ is slashed-o in IPA (rounded mid-high front vowel, the <eu> in French "feu"), /9/ is oe-ligature (rounded mid-low front vowel, the <eu> in French "peur"), and /H/ is turned-h (rounded palatal approximant? anyway the <u> in French "lui"). Christophe.