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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

The link isn't working for me.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So your point is basically that /uj/ is to your ears closer to /wi/ than to /oj/? It's not like I haven't heard Uyghurs say the word "Uyghur" before, I just thought that it was a bit silly to swap a vowel for a glide and a glide for a vowel. To me neither /wi/ nor /oj/ sound particularly close to /uj/, but of those two options I still favor /oj/ because it's the option that ends in a glide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So your point is basically that /uj/ is to your ears closer to /wi/ than to /oj/?

Pretty much yeah. For the same reason the French "oui" sounds like "wee" to Anglophones and is usually reproduced that way to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

French 'oui' literally is pronounced /wi/, though. That's what any French dictionary will tell you.

Do you say 'muy bueno' as 'mwee bwennow' too?

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