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Re: IPA block in Unicode

From:Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...>
Date:Friday, August 12, 2005, 21:13
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!
>-- > >/BP 8^)> >-- >Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se > > Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant! > (Tacitus) >=========================================================================