Re: sounds I can't find!!!

Quoting Scotto Hlad <scotto@...>:

> I'm putting together a table for Vistulan that indicates all the sounds for
> the language in IPA using CXS.
>
> In either case I don't remember how to get a few of the sounds that I'm
> using.
>
> Can someone tell me how to write the following sounds in CXS?
>
> Consonants
> c+hacek
Americanist and Czech c-hacek is [tS]. All bets are off if you're picking it
from somewhere else ...

> n+tilde
> I believe that the above would be
> nj
> but I'm not sure.
Spanish n-tilde is [J] (palatal nasal). [nj] would be a two-sound sequence, like
in English 'minion'.

Or perhaps you intend [n_j], a palatalized alveolar nasal.

> If I'm correct then the other sound I'm looking for would be analagous to
> n+tilde only it would be m+tilde which would no doubt then be
> mj
> but again... I'm not sure.
I would guess you intend either the cluster [mj], or the palatalized nasal
[m_j].

> Now for the tougher ones, vowel sounds.
>
> I realize that no two languages say sounds exactly the same. For that
> matter, I also realize that sounds will vary, oft times greatly, between
> regions. Bearing that in mind, how do I represent
>
> German 'au' or similarly Portuguese 'ao'
[au], to a first approximation. The German sound might be more accurately
indicated as [Ao], modulo dialect. Or [aw], [Aw] if you want to indicate the
second part as a glide; it's pretty much a question of taste.

> the sound in north American English
>
> i as in kite, flight, or German 'ei'
[ai], [aj]

> oi as in north American English soil, spoil German 'eu'
The American sound is [Oi], [Oj], the German [OY], [OH], or so.


                                               Andreas