Paul Bartlett | Re: [LFN] Questioning A Cyrillic Letter Assignment

• Autor: Paul Bartlett (“bartlett22183”)
• Tema: Re: [LFN] Questioning A Cyrillic Letter Assignment
• Data: 2006-03-29 22:32
• Mesaje: 2086 (a supra, presedente, seguente)

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, George Boeree wrote:

> Hi, Paul.
>
> You are right about the pronunciation, at least in Russian and
> Belarus.  In Ukrainian, Serbo-croatian, Makedonian, and Bulgarian,
> the e is in fact pronounced as in lfn, and the other e you mentioned
> isn't used at all.  Even in Russian, the e is sometimes pronounced
> (after palatals) as in lfn.

     Fair enough.  I readily admit that I am not a Slavic specialist
and was primarily going from a description of Russian.  If other
Cyrillic-written languages use the "E/e" more like LFN, then I am
content to go with it.  Thanks for the response.

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Paul Bartlett