Re: Russian vowel <bI>

Jim Heckman kirjoitti:

Haven't seen anyone mention Thai yet.

Nor English :-) Can't remember who or where, but I've seen someone somewhere say that for some dialects in some contexts the allophone of /I/ might be [1] in English too.

Actually, the whole question of "in what languages does this vowel appear" is senseless if understood phonetically. The vowel space doesn't have discrete places but instead is a non-discrete continuum. As people speak, they probably produce most vowels sooner or later no matter what language they are speaking in.

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    ott oktatják szebbre-jobbra.
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