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Lucas Werkmeister
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⟨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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838 B
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57 lines
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phoneme n
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IF nextPhW(isVelar) THEN // /n/ is velarized to /N/ when before velar stops
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ChangePhoneme(N)
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ENDIF
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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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IF nextPh(isVowel) THEN
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NextVowelStarts
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VowelStart(w/w@)
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VowelStart(w/wa)
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VowelStart(w/we)
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VowelStart(w/wi)
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VowelStart(w/wo)
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VowelStart(w/wu)
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EndSwitch
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ENDIF
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WAV(h/hu, 70)
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endphoneme
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phoneme aE
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vwl starttype #a endtype #e
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length 270
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FMT(vdiph/ae)
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endphoneme
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phoneme aI
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vwl starttype #a endtype #i
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length 240
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FMT(vdiph/ai)
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endphoneme
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phoneme EI
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vwl starttype #e endtype #i
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length 230
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FMT(vdiph/eei)
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endphoneme
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phoneme uI
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vwl starttype #u endtype #i
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length 290
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lng
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FMT(vdiph/ui)
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endphoneme
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