Re: chat; weird names,was Re; conlanging,the ultimate feministsubversion
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 8, 1999, 1:07 |
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On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 19:31:46 -0500 Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
writes:
>Steg Belsky wrote:
>> yashein /jOSen/ vs. yagei'a` /jOGea3/
>> reid /reD/ vs. rei'a` /rea3/
>I'm just curious about your notation here: is <ei> here really /e/,
>or
>a diphthong /ei/?
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>Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
It depends on dialect/accent.
Ashkenazic accents generally pronounce it /ej/ (except for Galitzianers,
who pronounce it /aj/), and Sephardic accents pronounce it /e/. It's the
vowel called _tzeireh_, the two horizontal dots.
I've decided that when i transcribe Hebrew i'll use my own mostly-Israeli
plus Ashkenazic /ej/ and Syrian /H/ and /3/ (and orthographic
differentiation for <tt> ttet and <ss> sin) for the words and the
"Classical" accent for IPA, except for </V/> for _vav_ instead of </w/>.
-Stephen (Steg)
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