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Article #5287Re: pronunciation of Latin
From: J. Kanze
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 00:00
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macchi@marina.scn.de (Gian Carlo Macchi) writes: > >Is there any dialect that uses just one phoneme for both? > > I've never heard such a dialect (perhaps somebody can help): however note > that, at present, also dialects are influenced by Italian (often horrible) > spoken by radio and TV. My wife's from Como (on the Swiss border), and is incapable of pronouncing an open o (which gives her a very strange accent in French, not at all Italian). I believe that this is general for "Ticinese". (They do use both e's however.) -- James Kanze +33 (0)1 39 55 85 62 email: kanze@gabi-soft.fr GABI Software, Sarl., 22 rue Jacques-Lemercier, 78000 Versailles, France -- Conseils en informatique industrielle --
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 105352,96661724c9e49fbe,start X-Google-Attributes: gid105352,public X-Google-Thread: 11289b,551beaee80785e30 X-Google-Attributes: gid11289b,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,551beaee80785e30 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public From: kanze@gabi-soft.fr (J. Kanze) Subject: Re: pronunciation of Latin Date: 1997/02/23 Message-ID: <m3rai8guvs.fsf@gabi-soft.fr> X-Deja-AN: 220762823 Sender: kanze@gabi References: <587ugn$o0u@nimble.mta.ca> Organization: GABI Software, Sarl. Newsgroups: sci.lang,sci.classics,humanities.classics