[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] POLISH DIACRITIC " L" EQUIVALENT INRUSSIAN

Reiner Kerp mail at reiner-kerp.de
Wed Nov 23 12:46:39 PST 2005


> I would guess that the Polish slashed" L" sound,could be equivalent,
> in written Cyrillic, to a "B". i.e. written Polish slashed L= English
> sound of W(through pursed lips)= written Cyrillic B; however I am not
> sure if  the Ukrainians would have transcribed it this way, i.e.  the
> "Polish slashed L" is converted into German and English , as just an
> "L", which gives it a totally different sound.

Already in Polish pronountiation is a real problem to me. The only solution 
I found for this were the IPA-Extensions of PAF. They helped me to 
understand, that e.g. the german SCHUR is identical to the polish SCHŁAR. 
Soundex does´nt help at all.

Reiner (Kerp) 




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