Rick Cameron wrote: > Is Щ pronounced in Russian something like the ich-Laut in German? I
not at all. first, Щ is a double consonant > 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 that is indeed the "official" pronunciation, and if you ask an (educated) Russian speaker to slowly pronounce a word with Щ he will pronounce it as /ʃʧ/ - but I guess it is influenced by orthography. In normal speech, this sound is almost like /ʃː/ or /ɕː/ (definitely softer than just plain /ʃː/) > Russian teacher > was a Czech! Are there any Slavic languages that do have a letter > pronounced > /ʃʧ/?) east slovak dialects, and it is a real combination of two phonemes /ʃʧ/ there (and it is usually written šč, when these dialects are written down at all) however, in some dialects it turns into /ɕʨ/ as known from polish btw ukrainian pronunciation of Щ is IMHO /ʃː/ -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
