Transcription exercise (was: Re: Vertical script)

On Friday 15 September 2006 11:45, Carsten Becker wrote:

> It's /"ka6st@n/, which is rendered as something like [k_ha:stn=] IMD,
> maybe even [k_hA:stn=], I don't know the exact quality of the /a/. But
> Remi and I already talked about that two weeks ago in fact, offlist.
With the "official" pronunciation, I managed to narrow the choice of
transcriptions to only two:

KashtēY [k_has_v.t_hEH]

KatsēY [k_ha.ts)EH]

During this offlist conversation, I also "built" the transcriptions of the
names of all the capital cities of E.U. that I propose now as a test of
phonotactics in your conlangs.

In Shaquelingua, to make the transcription of a name, you must start from
the name as the owner pronounces it. For a city or place, that means the
original native name as pronounced by its inhabitants. (I got the native
names from a french dictionary but I had to make some educated guess about
the pronunciation.)

Amsterdam	JatsērhdaV [ja.tsEx.dav]
Athinai		JatiyaI [jatiHa"i]
Baile Átha Cliath
		Baile jaaça klijāÇ [ba"i4e ja"aCa klij3C]
Berlin		BērhliJ [bEx.4ij]
Bratislava	BratishlavA [bXatiz.lava]
Brussel		BrusēL [bXusE4]
		BritsēL [bXi.tsE4] (in French)
Bucureşti	BukurēçtI [bukuXE.Cti]
Budapest	BudapētsĒ [budapE.tsE]
Helsingfors	JēlhsijhfōrhsŌ [je5.sij.fOx.sO]
Københaven	KābājavāY [k3b3jav3H]
La Valette	La valēT [4a va4Et]
Luxemburg-Ville	Lutsēlhburhvil [4u.tsE5.bux.vil]
Lisboa		LishboA [4iz.bo'a]
Ljubljana	LjublijayA [4ju.b4ijaHa]
London		LōyhdōY [4Ow.dOw]
Madrid		VadriD [va.dXid]
Lefkossia	LevhkosjA {4ef.ko.sja]
Paris		ParI [paXi]
Praha		PraA [pXa"a]
Riga		RigA [Xiga]
Roma		RovA [Xova]
Skoplje		SkoplijE [sko.p4ije]
Sofia		SofjA {so.fja]
Stockholm	TsōkōlhvŌ [tsOkO5.vO]
Talinn		TaliJ [ta4ij]
Warszawa	VarhsavA [vax.sava]
Wien		ViiJ [vi"ij]
Vilnius		VilijuS [vilijus]
Zagreb		TsagreP [tsa.gXEp]

xa ko syēdir! [Za: ko sHediX] (= Have fun!)

--
==================
Remi Villatel
maxilys_@_tele2.fr
==================

Replies