Funny

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[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago

Apparently

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[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

Okay, help me out here. What is the little letter after н and before и? I learned to read Cyrillic from Serbian and they didn't use it.

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[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Заполярный? Ы. If you pronounce it as e/i you can get "cute"(мило) instead of "soap"(мыло).

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[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children)

How is it normally pronounced? Both e and i in English can be pronounced in a lot of different ways, so is it like the sound in "way" or more like "tree"? I'm used to и being the "tree" sound

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[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

so is it like the sound in "way" or more like "tree"?

Neither. But 'й' sounds like 'y' in "way“.

https://youtu.be/N8TYZabKUNA

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[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

So it's sort of an ü? That's what my brain hears in the video.

Checking against the ipa given on Wikipedia, I get that ы is the close central unrounded vowel while ü is the close front unrounded vowel. Listening to the audio samples on those pages, I literally cannot hear the difference.

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