Re: Pronouncing Tokana (was RE: Importance of stress)

dbell@graywizard.net writes:
>Oh my, all this talk of stress has suddenly made me realize that I have
>been
>mispronouncing Matt's conlang all these years.
Well, I've mispornounced lot's of conlangs before i read how they were
supposed to be pronounced :)
>
>
>Assuming a VC-avoiding syllabification, we have Tokana [to.ka.na].  With
>the
>Latin stress rule we get [to'ka.na].  All these years I have been calling
>it
>[to.kan'a].
I pronounced it with a stress on ka: to.KA.na
>
>
I'm sure some of you have mispronounced Saalangal, by mistaking the aa for
a long a. But, it's really Sa-a-LA-ngal (Saalángal). I always don't add
the accent because it's annoying to switch to my Spanish setting and back
to English so I can do the accents.


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