>in contrast to this, how do you pronounce 'жч' combination in мужчина? Like U+0429 (щ).
>so ч in плач, матч is pronounced the same as in ночь? Yes ,the soft sign after "ч" does not influence the pronounciation. >btw does anyone know how is the Belorussian шч pronounced? I believe it is pronounced like ш+ч (similar to German pronounciation of "Borschtsch"). Wladislav -----Original Message----- From: Radovan Garabik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 10:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [unicode] Re[2]: Pronunciation of U+0429 On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 09:38:28PM +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > The [StS] pronunciation has been considered a dialect pronunciation for >50 > years now. The "official", standard pronuncation is [S'], and has been > for a long time. in contrast to this, how do you pronounce 'жч' combination in мужчина? (ж should be assimilated to ш, shouldn't it?) > > RG> We were certainly taught to pronounce [U+0429] as [StS] (soft [tS] before soft > RG> vowels, of course), > > [tS] is _always_ soft in Russian. > so ч in плач, матч is pronounced the same as in ночь? btw does anyone know how is the Belorussian шч pronounced? -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | 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!

