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 �') sure looks and sounds like an ich-laut to me. Cheers - rick -----Original Message----- From: David Possin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 8 August 2002 14:27 To: Frank da Cruz Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
