Eyjafjallajokull from an icelander

[Geoffrey Nathan]

For those whose e-mail clients can support IPA, it's transcribed this way:

[ˈeiːjafjatlajœːkʏtl̥]

If you don't have html in your mail client the circle under the last l may be to the right. As someone mentioned earlier, you can find the IPA transcription plus (I believe) Kristjan Arneson's pronunciation at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallajökull

Geoffrey S. Nathan
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and Associate Professor, Linguistics Program
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----- "Tom Zurinskas" <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

> From: "Tom Zurinskas" <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 3:11:19 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: Eyjafjallajokull from an icelander
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> Poster: Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM>
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> 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).
> >
> > Geoff
> >
> > Geoffrey S. Nathan
> > Faculty Liaison, C&IT
> > and Associate Professor, Linguistics Program
> > +1 (313) 577-1259 (C&IT)
> > +1 (313) 577-8621 (English/Linguistics)
> >
> > ----- "Tom Zurinskas" wrote:
> >
> >> From: "Tom Zurinskas"
> >> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 11:20:12 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
> Eastern
> >> Subject: Eyjafjallajokull from an icelander
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> >> Poster: Tom Zurinskas
> >> Subject: Eyjafjallajokull from an icelander
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> >> Eyjafjallajokull
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSo_ND41-6g&feature=player_embedded
> >>
> >> How to pronounce Eyjafjallajokull (a message from an Icelander) on
> >> youtube.
> >>
> >> I hear him say: ~Aeyaafyetlaayoekookh (in truespel)
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
> >> see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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