Timeline for Long vowels in the world languages
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Jan 19, 2022 at 4:01 | comment | added | Thomas | @YellowSky What Draconis was trying to explain is that vowel length has a specific meaning in linguistics which is very different from how children are taught in English-speaking elementary schools. An English grammar school "long a" is not a linguistics "long a". In linguistics, a "short a" and a "long a" have the same exact sound, but one is voiced for a longer period of time; whereas in grammar school a "long a" has a very different sound entirely. Perhaps that dabbles in semantics and misses the point of the question, but it's a distinction that is critical to answering the question. | |
Nov 4, 2019 at 23:11 | comment | added | Yellow Sky | But English, at least British, does have pairs of short and long vowels! E.g.: sit [sɪt] - seat [siːt], foot [fʊt] - food [fuːd], pot [pɒt] - pore [pɔː]. The fact that the vowels in each pair differ not only in quantity, but also in quality, doesn't change anything, many languages have it that way, e.g. in Hungarian mentioned in the question ⟨e⟩ represents /ɛ/ and ⟨é⟩ represents /eː/; likewise, ⟨a⟩ represents /ɒ/ while ⟨á⟩ represents /aː/. | |
Nov 1, 2019 at 1:18 | history | answered | Draconis♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |