So you could hear movement in the pronunciation? It didn't sound like a
single phoneme, more like a glide from one phoneme into another?
My native Russian speaker isn't available at the moment, but when she
pronounced U+0429 for me this morning, it sounded like a single phoneme. And
when I pronounced an ich-laut for her, she said it was the same sound.
At http://www.philol.msu.ru/rus/galya-1/kons/n-2.htm you can find
audiovisual samples for the consonants of the Russian alphabet. The entry
for U+0429 (which they write as û') sure looks and sounds like an ich-laut
to me.
Cheers
- rick
-----Original Message-----
From: David Possin [mailto:dave_i18n@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, 8 August 2002 14:27
To: Frank da Cruz
Cc: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of U+0429 (was RE: Digraphs as Distinct Logical
Uni ts)
Ok, three Russians gave me the pronunciation 's-ch', it sounds almost like
English 'sh', and when they transliterate to English they use 'sch'. The
'ch' part did not sound like the German "ich-laut", more like 's' turning
into 'sh'.
Dave
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