Re: First Sound Recording of Asha'ille!

Arthaey Angosii wrote:
> 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
>
> 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. ;)

Hi Arthaey,

Wow - the recordings sound awesome! :) I particularly like the [n:]
(in line 1), [k_>] in line 6, and |mmavtec|.

To my Dutch ear, it does sound a bit American-accented, though not
much. I guess that this impression comes largely from the [r\] (my ears
being used to uvular [R\]), and a little bit from centralizing some
vowels (like in line 2: |ashir| tends towards ['aS@r\], line 3:
|Jhor'enasho| sounds as if it ends in [@], more so than in line 2).

When I tried listening only to lines that don't have [r\], that
completely took away the impression that it is pronounced by an
American :)

But even with the [r\], I think it sounds great, and I'd like to hear
more of it :)

I've been recording a couple of lines in Calénnawn, but the Asha'ille
samples make me more reluctant to put them online - Calénnawn sounds
harsh in my ears, and I have a very heavy Dutch accent when pronouncing
it (probably this is to a large extent due to the uvular [R\] ).
Asha'ille sounds elegant and looks efficient.

Nóbu! (Well done!)

René