Re: Russian vowel ?



Nigel Greenwood wrote:
> Ruud Harmsen wrote:
> > 24 Jul 2005 20:50:58 -0700: "Satish" <ergodic_rodent@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in
> > sci.lang:
> >
> > >Are there languages not related to the Slavic ones that have this
> > >vowel?
> >
> > And Rumanian â/î.
>
> The Turkish undotted I is similar, & is also coded as "1" in SAMPA. It
> may be closer to the back vowel IPA upside-down "m" (SAMPA "M"),

I agree. so also turkish phoneticians.

> however. Turkish loanwords with this vowel in Russian tend to be
> written with Yeri (ы): eg камыш (kamysh) = reed.

which is also used for turkic languages in cyrillic. when practicing
some russian I was told that I was pronouncing yeri too far back, and
that it is properly further front.

>
> Nigel
>
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