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Fix Elvish ⟨o⟩, ⟨ó⟩, ⟨ê⟩ vowels
⟨o⟩ almost certainly represents [ɔ] – Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings describes it as the sound in English “for”. This means we should use a phoneme [[O]], not [[o]]; we should also create our own phoneme for this, since the one we inherit from Latin sounds much more like [o] to me. In Quenya, long ⟨ó⟩ (and, presumably, ⟨ô⟩) is, according to Appendix E, “tenser and ‘closer’”, which presumably means [o]. (Online sources seem to agree.) The Latin [[o:]] phoneme works well enough for this. In Sindarin, ⟨ó⟩ has “the same quality” as ⟨o⟩ according to Appendix E, so emit it as [[O:]] for [ɔː]. This sounds sensible enough te me. I’m undecided whether “Lothlórien” should be in sjn_list, to pronounce it with [oː] instead of [ɔː]. It’s composed of Sindarin “loth” and Quenya “Lórien”, so that could potentially justify a pronunciation with a Quenya ⟨ó⟩. But then again, maybe it should be a standard Sindarin ⟨ó⟩. For now, I’ve opted to not add it; in the film The Fellowship of the Ring, Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) says “Lothlórien” after the Fellowship leave Moria, and to me his ⟨ó⟩ sounds more like [ɔː] than [oː], so if this is wrong, at least it’s no more wrong than the famous movie adaptation :)
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CALL base1/n
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endphoneme
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phoneme O
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vwl starttype #o endtype #o
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length 200
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FMT(vowel/oo)
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endphoneme
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phoneme w#
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vls glt apr // [h]
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ipa ʍ
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CALL base1/n
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endphoneme
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phoneme O
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vwl starttype #o endtype #o
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length 200
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FMT(vowel/oo)
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endphoneme
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phoneme w#
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vls glt apr // [h]
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ipa ʍ
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