Eyjafjallajokull from an icelander

[Tom Zurinskas]

Thanks for that sound bite site.  So what I heard was

~Aeyyufletyieyook

~ae as in Mae
~yy starts stressed syllable
~u as in fun
~let as in let
~ie as in pie
~ook as in book (didn't hear the sloshy aspiration on "k" but I assume if overpronounced it would be there)



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



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> For those whose e-mail clients can support IPA, it's transcribed this way:
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> [ˈeiːjafjatlajœːkʏtl̥]
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> 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
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallajökull
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>> From: "Tom Zurinskas"
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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.
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>> So how do you spell Eyjafjallajokull phonetically from the youtube
>> pronunciation?
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>> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
>> see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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>>
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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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>>> Geoff
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>>> Geoffrey S. Nathan
>>> Faculty Liaison, C&IT
>>> and Associate Professor, Linguistics Program
>>> +1 (313) 577-1259 (C&IT)
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>>> ----- "Tom Zurinskas" wrote:
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>>>> From: "Tom Zurinskas"
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>>>> Eyjafjallajokull
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>>>> 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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