On 2002.08.07, 17:21, Marco Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it> wrote:
> But, as "ý" actually represents a sequence of two Russian phonemes
> ([S] + [tS]),
All russians I ever refered this to (and I lived 18 months in Chuvashia)
were quite baffled by the notion. Only russian linguists and philologues
seemd to understand the reason behind this western urban myth.
"ý" (U+1065) is modernly rather a soft "sh", like polish "s+acute".
Sorry about the OT.
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