From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Tue Aug 17 18:32:09 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Tue, 17 Aug 1993 22:34:38 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Tue, 17 Aug 1993 22:34:35 -0400 Message-Id: <199308180234.AA03083@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6872; Tue, 17 Aug 93 22:33:20 EDT Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@YALEVM) by YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 9251; Tue, 17 Aug 1993 22:33:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 22:32:09 EDT Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: Pronunciation in Lojban X-To: conlang@diku.dk X-Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: O X-Status: vowels a/e/i/o/u are basically Romance, but beware of your 'e's sounding like the 'ei' diphthong. 'y' is a schwa. Diphthongs are ai, au , ei, oi and in standalone words ia/ie/ii/io/iu and ua/ue/ui/uo/uu. In the diphthongs, the first i or u is pronounced as 'y' or 'w' respectively. Apostrophe between two vowels indicates a devoiced glide - most English speakers will do fine pronouncing an 'h', but it isn't really an 'h', and is not conisdered a consonant, but rather a way of ensuring asyllable break wiothout a word-break. Most consonants are what you think they are, "c" is English "sh", making "tc" English "tsh"="ch"; "j" is the voiced version of this, "zh" as in "measure" or "azure". "r" is usually better with a bit of a trill, but covers a wide range otherwise; "x" is the velar fricative in German "Ach", Scottish "loch", but voicing is allowed as in Libyan leader "Ghaddafi", and a palatal fricative like in German "ich" will be understood as long as there is contrast with "ish". Stress is penultimate unless marked. Do not count syllables where the 'vowel' is 'y' or a syllabic 'r' or 'n'. marking is by capitalization. A period is a pause; a glottal stop will do for a pause in rapid speech. You MUST pause after all names and between words that end with a vowel followed by words that start with one, and after all vocative markers except "doi" before names. Abnormal stress is marked with capitalization. lojbab