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Re: Yemls Phonology (long)

From:Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...>
Date:Friday, June 8, 2001, 10:03
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 15:51:45 +0200, Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:

>En réponse à Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...>: > >> Thanks, Christophe. I don't think I went too far with the phonetic >> variation here. Someday I'll have to post my Rubaga phonology. I think >> you'd like it -- it has at least 9 ways to pronounce the letter 'g'. > >Mmm... Yummy :)) > >> >So if I take all those rules, the name of the language Yemls should >> >really be phonemically /nEImU'lIsU/, pronounced [NEImU'lIs]. >> >> >I find it nice that a word people would naturally tend to pronounce >> >/jEml=z/ has in fact such a different pronunciation :). >> >> That is correct (although I'm considering adding an apostrophe to move >> the stress to the beginning). > >Now that I understood the joke, I think you should :) . Writing the name >'Yemls would give it an even more alien look, while the actual pronounced >word gets even nearer to English :) .
Will do. Jeff
>> It was a lucky coincidence that the sound I wanted happened to follow >> English capitalization rules (and more importantly, *Windows* >> capitalization rules). > >:)) > >Christophe. > >http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr