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I can't imagine it being pronounced any other way by someone from around here. Of course I've only heard it from native English speakers, so it's no surprise they wouldn't get it right. Born and raised in Stockholm, and I would pronounce it /kra˩meːr˥/. Thanks. (I was confused at first by ˩, which ...

Jabechasqvi wrote:You spelled the name of the language wrong, for starters. The name only has one "e".

Indeed. At least I got the name I asked about right. Any idea how to say that?

I'm trying to find out how to say a name. How would a Swedish speaker (any, really, but the person was from Stockholm) pronounce the name Cramér? What (if anything) would be the 'standard' way for an English speaker to pronounce it? I've heard /kɹeˈmə˞/ (/kɹejˈmə˞/?) and /kɹɑ.meˈ/ (/kɹɑ.mejˈ/?) by e...

The reason for writing a breve is usually to indicate beyond doubt that this vowel, which according to one of the various length guidelines "vocalis ante vocalem brevis" and that kind of stuff should be long, but it isn't. In other words, the breve is manly used to mark exceptions to the rules. Sin...

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CGreathouse wrote:Of course this was not done in ancient times.*

I suspect you'd be interested in reading something on apices.

Yes, I mentioned those above. Unlike macrons, those were used in classical inscriptions and even occasionally writing.

What I don't understand is why some texts use breves and macrons simultaneously. It gives the impression that there's more than a dichotomy between long and short? I haven't seen that before, that does sound odd. I'm not aware of any other distinction that this might make -- heavy/light can be dist...

Mostly historical reasons and reasons of academic practice - even though both forms have been recognised as forms of the same language, they're studied separately; most monographs and articles you'll see about Luwian deal only with either Hieroglyphic or Cuneiform, not with both. Academically, you ...

Hieroglyphic Luwian is hlu and Cuneiform Luwian is xlu , see the IANA Language Subtag Registry . But why do these get separate language codes, rather than using script tags? Egyptian hieroglyphics are egy-Egyp, while hieratic is egy-Egyh and demotic is egy-Egyd. Why not, e.g., luw-Luwh and luw-Luwc,...

He's not asking for perfectly precise renderings. Exactly. If I needed precise renderings of a language into audio, I'd ask a native speaker... or the creator, if it was a conlang. :mrgreen: But something that could do basic phonetics would be really nice. 50 common phones + 100 common diphones wou...

Back when I took introductory Latin I used texts (as is standard, I think) that marked vowel length with macros. Of course this was not done in ancient times.* For some reason I seem to remember that this was actually mostly regular, that it could be determined in a good majority of cases, leaving o...

I was wondering if there was a good IPA-to-sound converter available somewhere, whether online or as a download. Just something where I can type "ˌfoʊnəˈtɪʃən" and get some semi-reasonable approximation of the word. I know of systems (e.g., MBROLA) that let you control output with very fine controls...

Wow, thanks for the compilation ¡Papapishu!. That's a nice list!

With JohnQPublik's permission, you can now find all the lessons he wrote here (on one page with a neat little table of contents) at: http://www.chrisdb.me.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=cognitive_linguistics At the end of Lesson 9, I'm pretty sure "IE" refers to "Indo-European", not "Internet Explorer" as the...

I get the same. However, is there a language geek on the board who doesn't know that the language in question must be Hixkaryana? The reference is to Derbyshire and Pullum, who together edit the Handbook of Amazonian languages . Derbyshire has written extensively on Hixkaryana. I have four examples...

I liked Dewrad's commentary on mapmaking.

Dewrad wrote:Real men zoom in to 600% magnification and edit the map pixel by pixel!