Re: Phonological equivalent of "The quick brown fox..."
From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
Date: | Friday, February 2, 2007, 4:36 |
H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:31:58AM +0000, R A Brown wrote:
>> Sanghyeon Seo wrote:
>>> 2007/2/1, Sai Emrys <sai@...>:
>>>> "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" is used to test
>>>> typewriters because it contains all the letters of English.
>>>>
>>>> What are equivalent spoken phrases, i.e. that contain all (English)
>>>> phonemes (or phones, if you feel particularly ambitious)?
>>> That would heavily depend on accents, right? This is definitely
>>> inviting YAEPT.
>> I'm afraid it is. It will be obvious from the almost innumerable
>> YAEPTs that there is unlikely to be agreement over just what are all
>> the English phonemes. As for phones ........
> [...]
>
> ObConlang: What about y'all's conlangs? :-)
This has come up before...
A Jarda example:
völ nôsjkhronen ðôr'ra tuz zêb cwe gholhzjarku nò yuf zese rrün spê zùg
jor de þir'rem
"seven hundred quick wild wasps protect the expensive rose-colored
crystal in the basket next to the east staircase at the library"
http://archives.conlang.info/vae/khaelbha/khirfhoezhoen.html
Or you could translate "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
into your language, as I've done in Minza.
Sasču viskale marvu sipsu ida tuöku nizve.
Ø -sasč-u viska-le marv -u sips -u ida tuök-u nizv-e
3s.ABS-jump-PF fox -ERG brown-ERG quick-ERG over dog -LOC lazy-LOC