Re: Mispronouncing Conlang Names

On Thursday, April 14, 2005, at 06:19 , Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> Ray Brown skrev:
>> On Wednesday, April 13, 2005, at 10:11 , Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
[snip]
>>> Yes pretty much, tho it's actually [sQ'KQb_0].
>>
>>
>> ..with _hl_ used as in Zulu & Xhosa orthography   :)
>
> And in Icelandic, tho only word-initially.
Yes, I knew the |hl| in Sohlob had rather more to do with Icelndic
spelling  :)

[snip]
> > Bax
>
> ['pjA:s\i] for me, since I unlearnt ['bA:s\A]!
OK - I am actually having second thoughts on this. As ~bax uses the Roman
script as a syllabary, I am wondering whether in English and other
natlangs it would not be more satisfactory after all to have a proper
_alphabetic_ name for the language, namely Piashi.

That would mean the language was called Piashi, but written in the Piashi
_syllabary_ as ~bax (where the sign ~ indicates a proper name).
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> On Thursday, April 14, 2005, at 08:53 , Andreas Johansson wrote:
[snip]
> Oh, and every body mispronounce these for me:
Oh, what the heck! I might as well join in the game   :)

> Tairezazh
/'tajrezaZ/

> Kesheáras
/keSe'aras/

> Altaii
/al'taj.i/

> Meghean
/'mEgean/

> U-Rakh U-Nayargiz-ung
/u'ra:x una'jargIzUN/

> Telendlest
/te'lEndlest/

> Searixina
/sea'rIksina/

> Kalini Sapak
/ka'li:ni sa:pak/

> Steienzh
/'stej.EnZ/

Note: /a/ really is [a] and /r/ is trilled  - I picked up these two sounds
during my sojourn in Wales :)

PS - apologies for any which might be correct.

Ray
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