CHAT: IPA sounds (Was: Re: Tiri'n script was Re: chat: a conlang of my very own :))

On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 10:31:44PM +0100, Tim May wrote:
[snip]
> I find vowels difficult myself, but they're the thing that changes
> most between English dialects, so they're worth learning if you want
> people to understand what you mean.  You can listen to what the IPA
> values are meant to sound like here
>
> http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/ipa/full/ipachart_vowels_fbmp3.html
Hmm, very nice. *Finally* I can hear what some of the more esoteric vowels
are supposed to sound like :-)

(Un)fortunately, this means that I'm going to need to update my conlang's
phonology section... some of the IPA vowels aren't what I thought they
were. *Sigh*.

Consonants are so much easier to deal with... vowels are just a pain
because there are too many possibilities, and you can't always hear the
difference. (At least I can't.)

> and there's a good X-SAMPA chart here, if you haven't seen it
[snip]
> http://www.diku.dk/students/thorinn/xsamchart.gif
[snip]

Cool. I'm sure somebody posted this before, but I haven't been paying
attention ;-)


T

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