dmort27 / epitran

A tool for transcribing orthographic text as IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)
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Update spa-Latn.csv #155

Closed avaldez1412 closed 1 year ago

avaldez1412 commented 1 year ago

"hu" is pronounced [w] only if a vowel comes next, therefore the "h" is silent and "u" is pronounced [u].

Finally, the semivowels [j] and [w] can be assigned to the phonemes /i/ and /u/, as there are no minimal contrasts in Spanish between the sounds [i] and [j] or between [u] and [w]. Thus the semivowels can be seen as the forms taken by /i/ or /u/ when they occur in a diphthong with another vowel. Each semivowel can occur immediately before or immediately after the vowel with which it forms a diphthong, as is shown in Table 2 below.

Table 2 Distribution of the semivowels [j] and [w]

Before vowel After vowel
[j] [tjera] tierra 'land' [bojna] boina 'beret'
[w] [fweɣo] fuego 'fire' [ewɾopa] Europa 'Europe'

https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/i.e.mackenzie/conssemi.htm