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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">This is a great initiative. Some of my publications have been translated into Japanese, and I have given lectures in Japan where my name was given on posters and websites in
<i>katakana</i>, with a number of variations, in part based on spelling rather than pronunciation. I would go for
</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">ハートムート</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">・</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">ハーバーランド</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family:DengXian">,
</span><span lang="DE">since it is closest to the way I pronounce my name (Northern German, grown up in Hanover) and not least because
</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">ハーバーランド</span><span lang="DE"> is also the name of a shopping mall in Kobe (Harborland, of course)
</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">😊</span><span lang="DE">. (</span><span lang="DE">
</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">ハートムット</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">・</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">ハバーラン</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">ド</span>is
OK, too, of course, and one could indeed discuss if <span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">
ムット</span>is not more adequate by focussing on the unstressed vowel indeed being short while its tenseness is better expressed by
<span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">ムート</span><span lang="DE">; </span>
<span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"> </span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:DengXian">ハーバーランド</span><span lang="DE">is definitely the better solution.)</span><span lang="DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Hartmut Haberland<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">[haɐ̯tmu:t hɑ:bεɐ̯lant]</span><br>
Professor (mso) emeritus<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Roskilde Universitet</b><br>
Institut for Kommunikation og Humanistisk Videnskab<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Universitetsvej 1<br>
DK-4000 Roskilde<br>
Telefon: +45 46742841<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Fra:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org>
<b>På vegne af </b>Yuri Koryakov via Lingtyp<br>
<b>Sendt:</b> 5. september 2026 17:58<br>
<b>Til:</b> lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br>
<b>Emne:</b> [Lingtyp] IPA for linguists' names<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Many of us have encountered a situation where we need to pronounce the name of a linguist, but we don’t know how. Or we need to write down someone’s name in another
script (Cyrillic, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, etc.), and this again requires correct pronunciation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">As a result, you have to look for pronunciation instructions on personal webpages, listen to recordings on YouTube, ask friends, and so on, but it is much more
convenient when such information is collected in one place. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">To do this, I created the editable list of names and their transcriptions here:
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zFKZp2e6dvfw_JQqX7904xY1GnqOwaopD2gnb3ytilA/edit?gid=0#gid=0">
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zFKZp2e6dvfw_JQqX7904xY1GnqOwaopD2gnb3ytilA/edit?gid=0#gid=0</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">The
<b>General Guide</b> “How to add your name to the list” is available in the Info tab ( <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zFKZp2e6dvfw_JQqX7904xY1GnqOwaopD2gnb3ytilA/edit?gid=863783271#gid=863783271">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zFKZp2e6dvfw_JQqX7904xY1GnqOwaopD2gnb3ytilA/edit?gid=863783271#gid=863783271</a> ).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Additional difficulties that this project allows to solve:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">a) distinguishing the surname from other names (necessary for the correct compilation of bibliographies and especially relevant for languages with a different
order of components in the name or for names consisting of more than two words)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">b) indicating gender pronouns – he / she / they – useful in many languages when you need to, for example, refer to the author.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">If you are in doubt whether you should indicate yourself, you can use the following criterion as a working one: if you have published at least one article or
had one presentation at a conference, you can safely provide your name. Also if people pronounce your name differently from how you’d like it to be pronounced, or if you’ve ever been asked how to pronounce your name, that’s a hint that you should provide that
information.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">If you can’t/don’t want to add your data to the sheet yourself, you can send it to me by email . Also write if you have any questions/comments/suggestions etc.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Yours,<br>
Yuri Koryakov</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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