Re: [wEr\ Ar\ ju: fr6m] ?

Herman Miller wrote:
>For those of us who are borrowing place names from what the people who live
>there call them (which I might still do for Ludiréo, although probably not
>for Tirèlhat), I thought it might be cool to make a list of phonetic
>transcriptions of the home towns of Conlang list members. Feel free to
>include the names of nearby places.
>
>City: Ann Arbor [{n"Ar\br\=]
>County: Washtenaw ["wQSt@nQ:]
>State: Michigan ["mISIg@n]
>Country: USA [ju:Es"eI] (a.k.a. America [@"mEr\Ik@], United States
>[ju"nAI4@d "steIts], US [ju:"Es])
>
>Major nearby cities: Detroit [dI"t_hr\OIt], Toledo [t_h@"li:doU]
>Other nearby places: Ypsilanti [IpsI"l{~4i], Saline [s@"li:n]
Community: Linghem ["liN(h)Em]
Commune: Linköping [lin"C2:piN]
Province: Östergötland [%2st@r"j2:tland]
Country: Sverige ["svErjE]
Big Bloc: EU [e:}:] (note the abscence of a definite article)

Note: I don't speak the local dialect* - the pronunciations above are
"Standard". I'm to lazy to indicate that [t] and [d] are dental, that the
[v] is voiceless and similar phonetic detail.

* I find this dialect, "Östgötska" [2"x2tska], pretty ugly. Among the more
dislikeably features is the rendering of /r/ as [w] (standard example:
"oedit" ["we:dit] for Standard "redigt" ["re:dit], tho' this word is quite
unusual on Standard).

                                                     Andreas

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