Re: Pronunciation guides for non-linguists
| From: | Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 12, 2005, 6:33 |
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--- Fabian <fabian@...> wrote:
> Gary Shannon wrote:
> > I'm looking for a way to convey proper
> pronunciation
> > of conlang letters to non-linguists who may have
> > different native languages.
<snip>
>
http://alt-usage-english.org/ipa/ascii_ipa_combined.shtml
> covers US and
> UK English, plus a few words in other languages.
Interesting, but waaaaaay too detailed. There are
loads of different vowel sounds in the table, any one
of which would be acceptable for a given Elomi vowel.
Elomi has only five vowel sounds, and as long as the
speaker is tolerably close that's fine. All I really
want out of the table I'm trying to build is to get
the speaker of any L1 TOLERABLY CLOSE to the 16
primary vowel and consonant sounds in the first part
of the table.
Anything more precise than tolerably close is way
overkill for this application. See
http://fiziwig.com/pix/imupix01.html
--gary
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