Question on Ukrainian v/w

[Alex]

UNICOD (UTF-8)

Dear Paul, Ukrainian "V" is the same as Russian. But some countrymen
may mix "HV" with "F". I know that you can read cyrillic. I may tell you
an anecdote which we've been told by professor Zilberman at the Physics
department of the Kharkov's university....

Профессор Зильберман рассказывал, как сокрушался профессор
Финкель с факультета филологии: "Девчата! Ну почему вы говорите
"Хвинкель", когда вы так великолепно произносите... "ФОСТ"!

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From: "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>
To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 7:36 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Question on Ukrainian v/w


> I was perusing this cursory description of Ukrainian phonology:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_phonology>
> and there doesn't seem to be any mention of [v].
>
> Is this right? Ukrainian has no [v]~[f], only /ʋ/ = [ʋ]? E.g., вовк =
> [ʋoʋk]([wowk] for those who cannot read IPA)?
>
> TIA.
>
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