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Re: Pronunciation guides for non-linguists

From:<veritosproject@...>
Date:Sunday, December 11, 2005, 19:34
Here's the list for French at least.

_a_ller
_e/_trange (e with acute accent)
_F_rance
_i^_le (i with circumflex accent)
_k_ilo
_l_es
_m_arche/
_n_itroge\ne
Morc_eau_
_p_orc
Lingui_s_tique
_t_e^te
_u_sine
Ea_u_ for W (there isn't a direct equivalent of this letter in French.)
E/_ch_arpe for X
Enc_y_clope/die (not exact, but used as a vowel here.)

On 12/11/05, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to convey proper pronunciation > of conlang letters to non-linguists who may have > different native languages. It's all well and good to > describe "A" as sounding like the "A" in "father", but > for a non-English speaker, that doesn't help. > > What I'd like is a table with columns across the top > for various languages so that "A" might be described > in the "English" column as "fAther", and in the > "Deutsch" column as "vAter", and in the Espanol column > as "pAdre", and so on. > > The sounds I need are shown in this table: > http://fiziwig.com/bp0.html > > What I need is exemplar words for several other > languages. At the very least Spanish, French, and > German, but what other languages would be good to have > in such a table? > > --gary >