I just discovered a pronunciation guide for well-known Finnish names; you just click on a name and hear it pronounced: http://www.sci.fi/~kajun/finns/7.htm ...
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Mike Adams
abrigon@...
Jan 25, 2011 1:27 pm
Quenya, lost ancestor to Finno-Ugraic languages written with something like What Sanskrit it written in? Devanagari Mike Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Jan 25, 2011 1:29 pm
Just a couple of items. I am living in Finland now, in Savonlinna, so I get some local dialect (Savo) along with my standard Finnish news and dubbed movies. I...
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Julian Bradfield
jcbradfield
Jan 25, 2011 1:29 pm
... There's no glottal stop involved, nor any pause following. The stop is quite literally lengthened, by lengthening the occlusion phase when the vocal tract...
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iiipitaka
Jan 25, 2011 1:56 pm
... My father, who is from Pohjanmaa, seems to pronounce the geminates with a *preceding* glottal stop; e.g. niitty (meadow) is something like [ni:?ty]. I've...
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iiipitaka
Jan 25, 2011 1:56 pm
... Early British voiceless geminates became fricatives in the descended Brythonic languages (Welsh, Cornish, Breton): pp > f, tt > th (θ), kk > ch (x);...
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Julian Bradfield
jcbradfield
Jan 26, 2011 1:54 am
... It's complicated by the fact that Finnish appears to use various forms of non-phonological glottalization for higher-level interaction - there are a couple...
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Mike Adams
abrigon@...
Jan 26, 2011 1:37 pm
Try speaking Siberian Yupik. A lot of glottle stops and ... Mike Alaska Eeyampsatanahahliq Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Jan 26, 2011 1:38 pm
As I remember (and I could be wrong here) Icelandic geminates (CC) -> hC (example: dottir is pronounced dohtir, with the h being sounded). Can anyone tell me? ...
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LUCAS ANNEAR
lannear
Jan 27, 2011 3:07 am
Icelandic voiceless geminates are indeed pre-aspirated. And oftentimes it's misleading, as in the case of "dottir", where historically it actually _did_ have...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Jan 27, 2011 3:07 am
Ah, yes. A complete set of uvulars (surd, sonant, nasal (both surd and sonant), sonant aspirant, surd aspirant) as well as the normal set of velar 'k' type...
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Luká Novák
lukas.novak@...
Jan 27, 2011 3:07 am
... Well, in "Eyafjallajökull" "ll" is pronounced /tl/, I heard... Lukas...
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hhperala
Jan 27, 2011 3:07 am
... Maybe not after _e_, but something like that is supposed to happen between _i_ or _y_ and a consonant. At least one description of Finnish phonology [1]...
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ahannahim
Jan 28, 2011 3:56 am
The Quenya change of _kk_ to _kh_ might well have happened by way of affrication. A fairly well known similar change was the Old High German change of _kk_ to...
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Abrigon Gusiq
abrigon@...
Jan 29, 2011 6:57 am
Had a couple friends who were from the Island (St. Lawrence) and spoke the language. Its interesting how some of their English came out as well.. Intresting...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jan 31, 2011 1:51 pm
In the same digest that contained my own initial message to the "Finish Fun" thread, I also got the announcement below, which should not be overlooked as we...
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dreamingfifi
elvenswordsmith
Jan 31, 2011 1:52 pm
I'm not very well-versed in the latest developments in Quenya, so I need a little help with this translation. This is the poem that was read in place of...
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iiipitaka
Feb 6, 2011 5:34 pm
This essay has been formatted to avoid the use of non-ASCII characters as much as possible. In it, when words are given a phonetic represenation, –...
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olivier.scheeck
Feb 7, 2011 1:40 am
Hello people. Please forgive me my boldness of posting such a wall of text here (as a first post) :) My name is Oliver and I've recently become interested...
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Olivier Scheeck
olivier.scheeck
Feb 7, 2011 1:46 pm
I have a few corrections to make to my own translation (inspired and helped by a member of the sindarin.de board) ... Would probably be better _ar nainieldar...
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iiipitaka
Feb 7, 2011 2:26 pm
This is the second part of a four-part essay on the Telerin language. Tembesta Lindarinua A small amount of additional information about Telerin is available...
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Andrew Higgins
asthiggins
Feb 8, 2011 1:18 pm
To All Elfingers A recent posting to my blog Wotans Musings welcome comments: In a recent post to the Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza Jason Fisher wrote an...
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iiipitaka
Feb 8, 2011 1:50 pm
This is the third part of a four-part essay on the Telerin language. Pendi ar Elloi The next large batch of Telerin words comes from the wide-ranging essay ...
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iiipitaka
Feb 9, 2011 1:52 pm
This is the fourth and last part of a four-part essay on the Telerin language. Notessi ar Mapai The last large segment of Telerin words appears in a connected...
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iiipitaka
Feb 10, 2011 2:27 pm
None of Tolkien's published writings say anything about the system of writing used to represent the language of the Teleri. Lacking such evidence, one can do...
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Olivier Scheeck
olivier.scheeck
Feb 14, 2011 1:39 pm
After a lot of juggling with words and expressions, and massive (and most welcome) help and critique from Aran over at the sindarin.de board, here's an updated...
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Olivier Scheeck
olivier.scheeck
Feb 15, 2011 6:44 pm
I think I have to apologize for the mess I've posted, all those diacritics turning up as illegible gibberish. I've recieved a private email asking for a pdf...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Feb 15, 2011 6:44 pm
Some comments on this translated poem... Throughout you use _pata-_ for 'walk'. Is this attested as a Quenya word? I recognize the source (as in Tharbad from...
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Mans
mansbjorkman
Feb 16, 2011 5:23 pm
A very interesting read indeed! Perhaps this could be posted on elfscript2 as well? A few comments are given below. ... Apparently the carrier did not have to...
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David Giraudeau
davidkiks
Feb 16, 2011 5:25 pm
Here is a synthetic document on the Sindarin corpus in PE17 : http://lambenore.free.fr/downloads/PE17_S.pdf all contributions are welcome (by mail). DG...
