Is Щ pronounced in Russian something like the ich-Laut in German? I believe
this sound is represented in IPA by /ç/. In TUS 2.0 it says that /ɕ/
(U+0255) represents the sound spelled with ś (U+015B) in Polish, so perhaps
these sounds are different. If so, any hints on the difference?
(FWIW, I too was taught that Щ was pronounced /ʃʧ/ - but my Russian teacher
was a Czech! Are there any Slavic languages that do have a letter pronounced
/ʃʧ/?)
Thanks
- rick
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Everson [mailto:everson@evertype.com]
Sent: Thursday, 8 August 2002 0:09
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: Digraphs as Distinct Logical Units
At 20:27 +0200 2002-08-07, Philipp Reichmuth wrote:
>The idea that it was [S tS] is AFAIK based on an older pronounciation
>in a 19th century St.Petersburg dialect and made it into the German
>transliteration that way. Since then, this pronounciation has sort of
>dogmatically remained in German textbooks on Russian :-)
When I was doing Russian years ago we were taught that the only
people who maintained the s^c^ pronunciation were women born before
the Revolution and Moscow drag queens.
I've often thought the best transliteration for this would be
s-acute, which represents the same sound in Polish orthography.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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