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Help with pronunciation of "oŭ"

ya Rejsi, 28 Mei 2013

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Vilinilo (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 31 Mei 2013 11:40:53 alasiri

Kirilo81:
There is no such ban in the Fundamento, just a rule to use ŭ after vowels only.
Thanks for the tip. But even though there's such a rule, it's still used before a vowell in the name of the letter itself, ŭo. I never understood why purposely limiting the usage of ŭ, I can easily pronounce ŭa, ŭe, ŭi, ŭo and even ŭu. Could it be a linguistic prejudice from Mr. Zamenhof?

marcuscf (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 1 Juni 2013 3:44:14 asubuhi

According to this PDF (last line of page 135), it seems that Zamenhof did not like «ŭa» much. But he didn't dislike it so much as to introduce an irregularity, so he did include ŭo as the name of the letter, but didn't create any other words with that combination. I don't think we need to be too strict against ŭa, ŭo, oŭ etc. in proper names, culture-specific words and some other things, just don't go overboard changing basic words akvo to akŭo, etc... That would certainly be kontraŭfundamenta.

etala (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 1 Juni 2013 6:27:19 asubuhi

Vilinilo:
Kirilo81:
There is no such ban in the Fundamento, just a rule to use ŭ after vowels only.
Thanks for the tip. But even though there's such a rule, it's still used before a vowell in the name of the letter itself, ŭo. I never understood why purposely limiting the usage of ŭ, I can easily pronounce ŭa, ŭe, ŭi, ŭo and even ŭu. Could it be a linguistic prejudice from Mr. Zamenhof?
I just chalked it up to the tendency of two influential groups in the beginning of Esperanto, Russians and Germans, to avoid the sound of "ŭ" at the beginning of a syllable.

Vilinilo (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 1 Juni 2013 5:36:07 alasiri

etala:
I just chalked it up to the tendency of two influential groups in the beginning of Esperanto, Russians and Germans, to avoid the sound of "ŭ" at the beginning of a syllable.
On the other hand, to me (and I believe that values for other speakers of latin languages as well) it's a lot easier to say "akŭo" than "akvo".

jchthys (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 4 Juni 2013 3:27:05 alasiri

Vilinilo:
etala:
I just chalked it up to the tendency of two influential groups in the beginning of Esperanto, Russians and Germans, to avoid the sound of "ŭ" at the beginning of a syllable.
On the other hand, to me (and I believe that values for other speakers of latin languages as well) it's a lot easier to say "akŭo" than "akvo".
…meaning it would be all the worse to introduce minimal pairs with v/ŭ.

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