Re: ZBB: Another "What language is this song in" thread.
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 1, 2005, 2:14 |
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Hi!
Ooohoo, thanks, Steg, that's very great! :-)
Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> writes:
>...
> Here's my attempt at transliteration:
> (i don't know Farsi/Persian, but i can read the Arabic alphabet)
>
> ala ya ayhalsaqy adrkasan wnawlha
> kh 3Sq Asan nmwd awl wly aftad mSklha
> yh bwy tafh ay kaxr s'bazan t'rh bgSayd
> ztab j3d mSkynS ch xwn aftad dr dlha
Haha! So e.g. Tim heard the ending -t correctly where was wrong and
heard -nt and I heard -h- correctly where Tim heard -w-. Weird. :-)
The {a} seems to be [O] sometimes, or are we all so wrong about that
and it is unrounded [A]?
It's also funny that {r} may be vocalic or maybe it's an alveolar
approximant after all, and that the Arabic glyph for {q} may be [R].
I know a dish (on a Persian menu) with {q} transcribed {gh} where my
favourite chef uses [q] while {gh} would fit [R] much better. :-)
>...
> The word-breaks may be off where i couldn't tell with non-connecting
> letters which word they belong to.
Funny script...
**Henrik
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