Re: Mispronouncing Conlang Names

Ray Brown skrev:
> On Wednesday, April 13, 2005, at 10:11 , Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
>
>> David J. Peterson skrev:
>
> [snip]
>
>>> (1) Sohlob: Seen it a lot, and, again, because I like that coda [h],
>>> I tend to pronounce it ['soh.lob]--pretty much just like it looks.
>>
>>
>> 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.
The *sound* also occurs in words like
_kallt_ 'cold'.  The _ll_ isn't a graph for
/K/, since _ll_ in other contexts is /t_l/,
or perhaps /tK/.

 > Bax

['pjA:s\i] for me, since I unlearnt ['bA:s\A]!

Other langs by other people:

> What about Xinkutlan?
,xiNk8'tlA:n

> Noygwexaal?
,nojgve'xA:l

> Qthyn|gai
kyN'tAj or "Henriks Q-språk" ['henriks 'k8wsprok]
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/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

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