Re: Hi to the Ukraine from Tokyo
| From: | Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 24, 2001, 7:07 |
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S'mae,
> So where, for those of us who want our langs to reflect some sort
> of native
> pronunciation, does this lie?
>
> /ki:Ev/, /ki:Ef/, /kjEv/, /kjEf/, /kjIv/, /kjIf/, /kjWv/, kjWf/, etc.
Russian: ['k'ij@f] - where the second apostrophe marks the palatalization of
the [k], and the second one is the stress.
Ukrainian: ['kyjiv] - where [y] is the unrounded [u] thing (what's the
symbol?)
Hwyl,
Pavel
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