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Re: Natus



--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Costentin Cornomorus
<elemtilas@y...> wrote:
> --- Christian Thalmann <cinga@g...> wrote:
> > --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Costentin
> > Cornomorus
> > <elemtilas@y...> wrote:
> > 
> > > /eWR/ is sort of like French "heure", but I
> > can
> > > never recall the real IPA for it.
> > 
> > Well, French "heure" certainly has no [e] and
> > no voiceless
> > [w] in it...  it's [9R].  
> 
> So, [9] is the whole diphthongy thing? Anyway,
> there's certainly a [e] in the Kerno counterpart.

It's not a diphthong.  It's the rounded counterpart
of [E].  Straight single vowel.  You must be referring
to an utterly strange dialect, or to a different word.
Though I can't think of a French diphthong containing
a [e], except maybe [ej] in "payer", but Christophe 
would probably claim that to be [pEje] in *real* 
French.


-- Christian Thalmann