Re: [lojban] Lojban dictionary

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Thursday 13 May 2010 23:48:17 Leo Molas wrote:
> coi rodo
>
> I've been working on a project for a couple of weeks, mostly for myself,
> but it might be useful for the community. It's a dictionary, created in
> LaTeX.

Looks good!

> TODO:
>  - I want to put the IPA representation in each word, since I can do it
> automatically.

Are you going to use the same allophone for all occurrences of a letter? That 
would seem pointless. Some phonemes have allophones, and I at least don't 
pronounce them the same way all the time:
"n" can be [n] or [ŋ]. I usually pronounce it [ŋ] before "x", "g", and "k", 
and [n] elsewhere, but for some words such as "tcunCIN" I make an exception.
"r" can be any of several rhotics. I usually tap or roll it except when it's 
consonantal, in which case it's like English "burble", or preceded by "x", in 
which case both sounds come out as simultaneous uvular and alveolar trills 
distinguished only by voice. I've met people at jbovlaste who don't roll 
their r's.
"'" can be [h] or [θ]. I say [h] in all words except sometimes "fu'arka" 
(and "fu'orka", which is a variant thereof). I've heard that some people use  
[θ] generally, but I don't remember if I've met them.

Pierre
-- 
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