Re: First Sound Recording of Asha'ille!

(Oops, this should have gone to the list...)

Arthaey Angosii wrote at 2005-03-04 19:56:18 (-0800)
 > I recently bought a headset, and today I recorded my first spoken
 > Asha'ille with it. I speak the newly translated Fear Litany:
 >
 > http://arthaey.mine.nu:8080/~arthaey/conlang/writing/interlinears/fear-litany.html
 >
 > Files are currently in ogg format, but hopefully that won't be a
 > problem for anyone...
 >
 > It's surprisingly hard to speak a conlang. I had to do several
 > takes of each sentence. I wonder how "American" it still sounds?
 > Any accent, of course, is my non-native speakerness showing
 > through, and not representative of "real" Asha'ille. ;)
 >
 >

Very nice recording.  I don't think it sounds American,
particularly... although that's probably what I'd guess if I had to.
It doesn't sound Spanish to me - maybe the vowel quality and prosody,
a little, but the consonants are quite different.

Why have you provided an IPA transcription of the morphemic breakdown
rather than the sentences as uttered? (That is what's going on there,
isn't it?)

Incidentally, it occurs to me one could present a recording of this
type without transcription, and then let our more phonetically expert
listmembers transcribe it, and compare notes.  (One could even hold a
short audio translation relay...)

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