Re: IPA block in Unicode

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:04:05 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
wrote:

>Paul Roser skrev:
>> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:37:49 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have [z=:] as an allophone of /i/ in my childhood accent of Swedish
>>>(from Orust, Bohuslän,if anyone wonders) and to my ear and my limited
>>>experience Mandarin _si_ sounds exactly the same.
>>
>>
>> BP, is that near Viby? Years ago I remember reading references to
>> the 'Viby-i' which was supposed to be similar to the Chinese syllabic
>> fricative.
>
>No it's *not* near Viby.  There are two areas with these sounds:
>one in the inland of Moddle Sweden (roughly south-west of Stockholm)
>where Viby is located and one on the west coast north of Gothenburg
>where I'm from.  The names "Viby-i" and "Viby-y" were choosen because
>the name Viby is pronounced ['vz=:bz_O=:]!
Heck! That sounds almost like my Hive English phonology! How can anyone
make an alien sounding conlang with the Swedes and Chinese around!

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