Eyjafjallajokull from an icelander

[Tom Zurinskas]

Truespel's got a ways to go for a lot of sounds.  There are always diacritics.  It's a work in progress.  I see no reason why truespel can't spell anything.

So how do you spell Eyjafjallajokull phonetically from the youtube pronunciation?

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
see truespel.com phonetic spelling




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> For those who haven't had 'enough already' on the pronunciation of that Icelandic glacier, the tricky sound is the last one, which is a voiceless lateral affricate, a relatively common sound in the world's languages (it occurs in Nahuatl, Chippewyan, Tlingit and others). It's basically a combination of a t-sound (voiceless alveolar stop) with a lateral release (an l-like sound, but voiceless). Since the combination of t-l is impossible in English, native speakers find it hard to deal with, especially at the beginning or ending of a word.
> Since Icelandic is a different language, with different phonemes, Truspel can't describe front rounded vowels [y]as in German Hütte and [œ] as in French peur, not to mention preaspirated stops (p,t,k preceded by a real h-sound).
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>> Eyjafjallajokull
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSo_ND41-6g&feature=player_embedded
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>> How to pronounce Eyjafjallajokull (a message from an Icelander) on
>> youtube.
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>> I hear him say: ~Aeyaafyetlaayoekookh (in truespel)
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>> With
>> ~ae as in Mae,
>> ~aa as in �ah�,
>> ~yet as in �yet�,
>> ~oe as in �toe�
>> ~kookh as in �cook� but with the ~kh as an aspirated ~k.
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>> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
>> see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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