Rick Cameron wrote:
> At http://www.philol.msu.ru/rus/galya-1/kons/n-2.htm you can find
> audiovisual samples for the consonants of the Russian alphabet. The entry
> for U+0429 (which they write as Ш') sure looks and sounds like an ich-laut
> to me.
Are you referring to the German standard pronounciation [ç],
or have you, by any chance, heard this phoneme pronounced by
a Hessian [ʃ]? The latter would resemble the pronounciation of
"щ" much more than the former (which is normally transliterated
into Russian as "г").
Best wishes,
Otto Stolz
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