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

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.