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From: phoogenb@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Peter Hoogenboom)
Subject: IPA [was Re: Old English alphabet (was: English importation ...)]
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david shobe (dshobe@unlinfo.unl.edu) wrote:
: Incidentally, is yogh (a 3-like symbol formerly used to write "gh" and
: consonantal "y") the source of the IPA symbol for /Z/?  They look
: enough alike, the problem is that yogh never represented /Z/. 

That's why it's the *International* Phonetic Alphabet.  The "j" isn't much
used for [j] in English, either, but "y" is.  [y] represents a pure (not
semi-) vowel in IPA, however.  "W" is [v] in German, where "v" is [f]. 
C-cedille in French is [s], but the IPA symbol represents the sound in
German "Ich". 

Peter

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