Re: Russian vowel ?

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:07:17 +0000 (UTC): richw@xxxxxxxxx (Rich Wales):
in sci.lang:

>"Satish" wrote:
>
> > > Are there languages not related to the Slavic ones
> > > that have this vowel?
>
>Ruud Harmsen replied:
>
> > And Rumanian â/î.
>
>Really? Romanian â/î sounds to me like a low (not mid/neutral)
>unrounded vowel -- very much like /u/, but unrounded.

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/romanian.htm gives Sampa [1] for
â/î, and [@] for a-breve (which I used to confuse with a-circonflex,
but is different).
--
Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com

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