[Ivo]

Can someone please clarify for me what's the pronunciation of ӯ? I've read different descriptions and all of them disagree, what's worse is that none of these descriptions uses IPA so it's rather open to interpretations.

Is it [ʊ] or [ʏ]?! Or something completely different, maybe like Uzbek ў which is [ø]?

I've read some speakers don't even pronounce it differently from ӯ.

Would it be too much trouble to ask someone to record himself saying words with ӯ, ӯгай, ӯгурак, ӯъҷуба, ӯхдадор, мӯҳтаво, рӯзахӯр, фурӯш?

Thanks!

Сообщение отредактировал Ivo: 30 Октябрь 2010 - 19:24

[poet]

In Southern dialects there is no difference between у and ӯ, maybe pronounced a bit longer than у.In Northern dialects, ӯ pronounced like french e.In Khujand we pronounce all tajik words with ӯ, except word кӯҳ.We pronounce it куҳ
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[asukajidai]

If we use IPA to express this sound, that will be [ɯ]. It pronounces like the u (う) in Japanese and "一" in Korean. It is a little open than the sound [u]. Sometimes maybe you will hear the sound like the [u].