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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

So it's sort of an ü? That's what my brain hears in the video.

Checking against the ipa given on Wikipedia, I get that ы is the close central unrounded vowel while ü is the close front unrounded vowel. Listening to the audio samples on those pages, I literally cannot hear the difference.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

~~There is small difference, but close enough.~~ Yes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I can feel the difference when I say it, but... Well, suffice to say it's not a sound in any of the languages I speak well.

Thanks for indulging a curious language nerd.