Re: Country Names -- Local Pronunciations

> >Herman Miller wrote:
> >> http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/places.html
Hmmm.   It seems you lack Hispanic places.  A contribution:

Continents in Spanish:
América /a"me4ika/
Sudamérica/Suramérica/América del Sur /suDa"me4ika/ /su4a"me4ika/
.../Del"sur/
Norteamérica/América del Norte /nortea"me4ika/ .../Del"norte/
Centroamérica/América Central /sent4oa"me4ika/ .../sen"t4al/
Eurasia /ew"4asja/
Europa /ew"4opa/
Asia /"asja/
África /"af4ika/
Oceanía /osea"nia/

Hispanic-American Countries, Capitals and main Cities:
México /"me.Xi.ko/; (Ciudad de) México/México DF/DF /sju"DaDe/...
.../de"efe/ /"defe/; Acapulco /aka"pulko/, Monterrey /monte"rrej/, Cancún
/kan"kun/
Guatemala /gwate"mala/; (Ciudad de) Guatemala;
Honduras /on"du4as/; Tegucigalpa /teGusi"Galpa/;
El Salvador /elsalBa"Dor/; San Salvador /sansalBa"Dor/;
Nicaragua /nika"4aGwa/; Managua /ma"naGwa/;
Costa Rica /kosta"rrika/; San José de Costa Rica /sanXo"se De/...;
Panamá /pana"ma/; (Ciudad de) Panamá;
Cuba /"kuba/; (La) Habana /la.a"Bana/;
Puerto Rico /"pwerto "rriko/; San Juán (de Puerto Rico) /san"Xwan De/...;
República Dominicana /rre"puBlikadomini"kana/; Santo Domingo
/santoDo"miNgo/;
Colombia /ko"lombja/; Bogotá /boGo"ta/; Medellín /mede"Zin/, Cali /"kali/,
Barranquilla /barran"kij\a/
Venezuela /bene"swela/; Caracas /ka"rakas/; Maracaibo /mara"kajBo/
Ecuador /ekwa"Dor/; Quito /"kito/; Guayaquil /gwaj\a"kil/
Perú /pe"4u/; Lima /"lima/; Cusco /"kusko/, Arequipa /a4e"kipa/
Chile /"tsile/; Santiago (de Chile) /san"tjaGo/;
Argentina /arXen"tina/; Buenos Aires /bweno"saj4es/; Córdoba /"kordoba/
Uruguay /u4u"Gwaj/; Montevideo /monteBi"deo/;
Paraguay /pa4a"Gwaj/; Asunción /asun"sjon/;
Bolivia /bo"liBja/; La Paz /la"pas/; Sucre /"suk4e/, Santa Cruz (de la
Sierra) /santa"k4us Dela"sjerra/

This is mainly standard Hispanic-American pronunciation.
/e/, /o/ are mid vowels (between [e] and [E], [o] and [O] in four level
distinctions), might be slightly more open on closed syllables and slightly
closer in open stressed sylables, but this is not phonemic.
/B/, /D/, /G/ are usually aproximants and /D/ can be silent. /D/ is dental
or non-silibiant alveolar.
/4/ is an alveolar flap. /rr/ is an alveolar trill. /r/ might be a tap, flap
or trill. In some Andean dialects /rr/ becomes [z`] or [Z].
/X/ is either velar [x], uvular [X] or glotal [h] voiceless fricative,
acording to dialect.
/j\/ is nominally a voiced palatal fricative, but it might be affricate
(mainly word initially or after nasal) or aproximant (sometimes
intervocalic).
Syllable final /s/ becomes [h] or mute in Caribbean and Rioplatence
dialects.

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