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Re: y sound

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Thursday, April 17, 2003, 22:31
> could someone tell me what sound do the french and english "y" make
exactly?

In French, it's the vowel [i] or the consonant [j]. In English, it has the
consonant value [j] as well, and as a vowel functions as English I, having
the sounds [I], [i:] and [AI)].

Quite different from Welsh, Swedish or Polish...