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becka_suttonElaborations
I'm conscious that simple saying the vowels are a, e, o and ā, ē, ō doesn't actually tell you a darned thing about how they are pronounced since English actually has a lot more than five vowels. British and American vowel pronunciation also varies a lot (and heck I don't speak Received Pronunciation myself) so simply giving word examples won't help.
The first part of this post will therefore deal with vowel pronunciation.
First note: The vowels with macrons are simply held twice as long like Japanese double vowels.
Additions
I'm adding aspirated stops and a velar approximant (I seem to like approximants). I'm also correcting the position of another approximant from labial to labio-dental (which was always the sound I had in mind. I'm not especially happy with the current orthography for the labio-dental and velar approximants and have no idea how to orthographise (is this a word?) the aspirated stops. Any suggestions welcome). I've also added links to the wiki articles for each sound (except the aspirated stops).
This gives me an inventory of of 20 consonants - which seems reasonable. English has 24, Rotokas has 11 and Ubykh had 84 (some of the Khoisan languages have even more).
Back later or tomorrow with words!
I'm conscious that simple saying the vowels are a, e, o and ā, ē, ō doesn't actually tell you a darned thing about how they are pronounced since English actually has a lot more than five vowels. British and American vowel pronunciation also varies a lot (and heck I don't speak Received Pronunciation myself) so simply giving word examples won't help.
The first part of this post will therefore deal with vowel pronunciation.
First note: The vowels with macrons are simply held twice as long like Japanese double vowels.
- a is the open front unrounded vowel represented in IPA as a. (There are sound files on the wikipedia articles but I find them none to clear at times).
- e is the open-mid front unrounded vowel represented in IPA as ɛ.
- o is the open back rounded vowel represented in IPA as ɒ.
- For the diphthongs i is ɪ and u is ʊ.
Additions
I'm adding aspirated stops and a velar approximant (I seem to like approximants). I'm also correcting the position of another approximant from labial to labio-dental (which was always the sound I had in mind. I'm not especially happy with the current orthography for the labio-dental and velar approximants and have no idea how to orthographise (is this a word?) the aspirated stops. Any suggestions welcome). I've also added links to the wiki articles for each sound (except the aspirated stops).
| labial | labio- dental | alveolar | palatal | velar | glottal | |
| Stops | p pʰ b | t tʰ d | k kʰ g | |||
| Fricatives | s z | |||||
| Affricates | ts dz | |||||
| Approximants | w | r l | y | v | ||
| Nasals | m | n |
This gives me an inventory of of 20 consonants - which seems reasonable. English has 24, Rotokas has 11 and Ubykh had 84 (some of the Khoisan languages have even more).
Back later or tomorrow with words!
