Re: [QUESTION] What does IPA L-tilde stand for?

 --- Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> I think LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH TILDE is in Unicode as a precomposed
> character because it's used to write Polish. The tilde also appears as
> a combining diacritical mark, and that should normally be used for the
> IPA diacritic (which means velarized or pharyngealized).
>
> However, some implementions of Unicode will insist on using a combined
> glyph if it exists, so the Polish l-with-tilde gets included in the
> IPA set.
Polish uses an L-with-stroke. Most people pronounce it like [w], though
older people, who were born in pre-war parts of Poland that later became
part of the USSR, tend to pronounce it like the thick Russian [l]. I have
never seen the stroke replaced by a tilde.

The only thing I can think of myself, is that SMALL L WITH TILDE (SAMPA:
[5]) must be some sort of nasalized [l] playing the role of a vocal.

Jan


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