Re: IPA for the Vowel in "good"

On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 12:21:30PM -0400, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Eric Christopherson wrote:
> >On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:19:38AM -0400, David Peterson wrote:
> >[snip]
> > > The thing is, I don't know the IPA symbol for this vowel.  I've
> > > scoured the net, and every single chart I find has the /I/ and /Y/
> >symbols,
> > > then the /U/ symbol but not its counterpart.
> >
> >It's an inverted small letter m, which is to say it looks like a small m
> >rotated 180 degrees.
>
> Ain't that the unrounded counterpart of [u], that is high, back, TENSE
> unrounded vowel?
Ah yes. I was confuzzled.

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Eric Christopherson, a.k.a. Contrarian Conlanger Rakko ^_^