Re: Butterflies
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 18, 2003, 18:34 |
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En réponse à michael poxon :
>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!
No, the phoneme for 'u' in French 'ui' here is the "inverted lowercase h",
[H] in X-SAMPA. It is to [y] what [j] is to [i]. But a few people already
made that clear :)) . The "inverted lowercase m" is a high unrounded back
vowel (the unrounded version of [u]). French doesn't have this sound
(Japanese does, however :)) ).
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.
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