From robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR Wed Aug 08 04:02:02 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: robin@bilkent.edu.tr X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 8 Aug 2001 11:02:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 2552 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2001 11:02:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 8 Aug 2001 11:02:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr) (139.179.30.24) by mta3 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2001 11:02:01 -0000 Received: from neo.fen.bilkent.edu.tr (neo.fen.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.97.69]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with SMTP id 820DE126D7 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:19:51 +0300 (EEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Transliterations survey Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:01:45 +0300 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <0108041157591F.06856@neofelis> In-Reply-To: <0108041157591F.06856@neofelis> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01080820014502.01287@neo.fen.bilkent.edu.tr> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Robin Turner On Saturday 04 August 2001 18:47, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Sat, 04 Aug 2001, Nick NICHOLAS wrote: > > > >DiyarbakIr, Turkey > > > >di,iarbaKUR. > >di,iarbaKIR. > >di,iarbaKYR. I'd go for the last one, except the stress should be on the second syllable (the last-syllable-stress rule doesn't apply to propoer nouns). The Turkish dotless I is actually pronounced higher in the mouth than schwa (in IPA it's that small i with a crossbar) but Y is still a better approximation than U. robin.tr