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Lucas Werkmeister
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⟨e⟩ almost certainly always represents [ɛ], not [e]. Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings describes it as the sound in English “were”, and I’m not aware of any English dialect that pronounces “were” with an [e]. In Quenya, long ⟨é⟩ (and, presumably, ⟨ê⟩) is, according to Appendix E, “tenser and ‘closer’”, which I assume means [e]. Several online sources agree with this as well. In Sindarin, Appendix E is quite clear that ⟨é⟩ has “the same quality” as ⟨e⟩, only differring from it in length: I assume this must mean that ⟨é⟩ is [ɛː] in Sindarin. The online information on this is confusing and sometimes contradictory even within the same page; several sources claim that Sindarin has an [eː], but I have not seen this claim substantiated with a source from Tolkien, and I suspect it’s simply a confusion with Quenya. It scarcely matters, anyway: Sindarin words with ⟨é⟩ or ⟨ê⟩ seem to be pretty rare. (I’m aware of a single word with an ⟨é⟩ – the name Eluréd, son of Dior – and the Omikhleia Sindarin dictionary [1] features some words with ⟨ê⟩, giving their pronunciation with [ɛː].) The [[EI]] phoneme for Sindarin ⟨ei⟩ is copied from the base2 phonemes. [1]: https://www.jrrvf.com/hisweloke/sindar/index.html
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51 lines
757 B
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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 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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