Re: Butterflies
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 18, 2003, 14:35 |
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:18:51PM +0100, michael poxon wrote:
> The Omeina word is Suisku (from a root sui- apparently meaning "light,
> float", that sort of thing). The sequence -ui- is pronounced as in French
> ( Polysynthetic language - Pah!! ;-) ) so the phoneme for the u is that
> 'inverted lowercase m'; not sure what the SAMPA character is!
Well, the X-SAMPA symbol for the high back unrounded vowel is [M]. But
I would expect -ui- in French to have a high front rounded vowel [y]
instead? Am I missing some subtlety associated with the sequence?
-Mark