LL-L "Orthography" 2003.12.19 (04) [E]

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From: Stella en Henno <stellahenno at hetnet.nl>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2003.12.18 (07) [E]

> Hello all. I am looking at the universal declaration of human rights in
> Frisian, and I notice some letters that are difficult to pronounce. What
do
> the circumflexed vowels do? Is y pronounced like y in Hochdeutsch System?
> Ben

Y = [i], so like "meet", but short. Except in words like my,hy,dy which can
be
pronounced [mE.I], etc. So with a diphthong like Dutch "ij".

A û is a long or short [u] sound, so look "book" or "moose". (depends on the
word and/or the dialect)
A ê is a long [E], sort of like "bed" in English.
A ô is a long deep [O], like French "contrôle", or "roll" (sort of) in
English.
A ú is like Dutch "uu", French "u' (in "tu"), or German ü, either long or
short (mostly short).
A â sounds almost the same as ô, and is kept apart in spelling for
historical reasons.

Note also that "ie", "ea", "oa", "eo" and "ue" have pronounciations as
falling diphthongs
(namely [i.@], [E.@], [o.@] , [ö.@] and [y.@] resp. but sometimes have
rising quality as well.
It's quite complex. But members of the list will be happy to answer specific
questions.

Henno Brandsma

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