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Re: Pronunciation guides for non-linguists

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Monday, December 12, 2005, 6:33
--- 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.
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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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