Rick Cameron wrote: > 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 Ш') sure looks and sounds like an ich-laut > to me.
Are you referring to the German standard pronounciation [ç], or have you, by any chance, heard this phoneme pronounced by a Hessian [ʃ]? The latter would resemble the pronounciation of "щ" much more than the former (which is normally transliterated into Russian as "г"). Best wishes, Otto Stolz
