Re: Hi to the Ukraine from Tokyo
| From: | Y.Penzev <yitzchaq@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 26, 2001, 7:35 |
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Re: Pavel Iosad on Saturday, November 24, 2001 9:02 AM
> 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?)
Pavel, sorry, a tiny mistake:
Russian would be ["k'ijif] - palatal (!) reduction.
Ukrainian is ["ke<retr>jiw] - Ukr. /y/ is a front (!) vowel, similar to Fr.
/é/ in 'bébé', and /v/ has an allophone /w/ in auslaut and before the
consonants (!)
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