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in reply to a message by Crissov
Oh, alright. Yeah, the submitted pronunciations are often not edited if there is no reference available for correct pronunciation, they're just left as they were submitted, and submitters don't always use the BtN key properly.
Is Hannah in German really pronounced with an /ʌ/ at the end by German speakers, rather than sounding the same as the first a?
(I thought the "ah" endings given for non-English pronunciations reflected actual pronunciations, and that was why they were "u" or schwa for English but not other languages.)
- mirfak
Is Hannah in German really pronounced with an /ʌ/ at the end by German speakers, rather than sounding the same as the first a?
(I thought the "ah" endings given for non-English pronunciations reflected actual pronunciations, and that was why they were "u" or schwa for English but not other languages.)
- mirfak
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Indeed, all the ‘a’ in Hannah and Anna are basically equal (except for stress and length) and would be denoted by [a] or [ʌ] in IPA, not [ɑ] and certainly not [ɒ] which is almost [ɔ].
This message was edited 4/7/2016, 12:23 AM
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