My computer may speak Vilani soon... Jeff Zeitlin 12 Jun 2019 23:02 UTC
... but I could use some help from the linguistically inclined. I have all the documents from the URLs that I recently requested. One of them carries the filename of 'Vilani_phonics.doc' and describes how Vilani is pronounced, though that guide as given specifically calls out that you'll have a Terran/Anglic accent (and I suspect that it will be a General American accent). I took that document, and worked with it and Wikipedia's entry on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Unfortunately, my email client doesn't do Unicode very well, so I'm having to work with X-SAMPA for this message. Below is what I've come up with for converting Vilani-written-with-Anglic into IPA/X-SAMPA; I've also included the standard descriptive name of the sound from IPA. I'd appreciate it if the linguistically inclined could cross-check my work and comment. (Note that X-SAMPA is case-sensitive!) Anglic X-SAMPA Description ------ ------- ----------- a A UNROUNDED OPEN BACK VOWEL e E UNROUNDED OPEN-MID FRONT VOWEL i I UNROUNDED NEAR-CLOSE FRONT VOWEL u U ROUNDED NEAR-CLOSE CENTRAL VOWEL aa { UNROUNDED NEAR-OPEN FRONT VOWEL ii i UNROUNDED CLOSE FRONT VOWEL uu u ROUNDED CLOSE BACK VOWEL b B VOICED BILABIAL FRICATIVE d d VOICED ALVEOLAR PLOSIVE g g VOICED VELAR PLOSIVE k k VOICELESS VELAR PLOSIVE kh x VOICELESS VELAR FRICATIVE (Note: may be X VOICELESS UVULAR FRICATIVE) l l ALVEOLAR LATERAL APPROXIMANT m m BILABIAL NASAL n n ALVEOLAR NASAL p p VOICELESS BILABIAL PLOSIVE r I wasn't sure with this one. It is definitely not r\ ALVEOLAR APPROXIMANT; it could be either r ALVEOLAR TRILL or r` RETROFLEX FLAP. s s VOICELESS ALVEOLAR FRICATIVE sh S VOICELESS POSTALVEOLAR FRICATIVE (Note: May be s\ VOICELESS ALVEOLO-PALATAL FRICATIVE) z z VOICED ALVEOLAR FRICATIVE ®Traveller is a registered trademark of Far Future Enterprises, 1977-2018. Use of the trademark in this notice and in the referenced materials is not intended to infringe or devalue the trademark. -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Resource xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com Freelance Traveller extends its thanks to the following enterprises for hosting services: onCloud/CyberWeb Enterprises (http://www.oncloud.io) The Traveller Downport (http://www.downport.com)