Re: Characters (was: Nice comment, Adam! (was: beautiful scripts))

Hmmm, foreign names in Obrenje... let's see... they'd attempt to copy
the original pronunciation, but people with scant linguistic background
would probably cast the names into the Obrenje phonology grid.

John   --> Dzhon  /dZOn/
Herman --> Ferman /hErm"an/
Roger  --> Rodzer /rOdZ"Er/ or (French pronunciation) Rozee /rOZ"e:/
Mills  --> Milce  /"mIls/

The actual result depends on whether stress or accuracy of consonants is
deemed more important:

Miller --> Milre  /"mIlr@/ or Miller /mIl:"Er/

The stress can only be on the ultimate or the penultimate syllable, so
in most cases foreign names won't be imported with stress intact.  Few
languages seem to have word-final stresses for some reason.


--  Christian Thalmann