[Lingtyp] IPA for linguists' names

[Yuri Koryakov]

Dear colleagues,

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.

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.

To do this, I created the editable list of names and their 
transcriptions here: 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zFKZp2e6dvfw_JQqX7904xY1GnqOwaopD2gnb3ytilA/edit?gid=0#gid=0

The *General Guide* “How to add your name to the list” is available in 
the Info tab ( 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zFKZp2e6dvfw_JQqX7904xY1GnqOwaopD2gnb3ytilA/edit?gid=863783271#gid=863783271 
  ).

Additional difficulties that this project allows to solve:

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)

b) indicating gender pronouns – he / she / they – useful in many 
languages when you need to, for example, refer to the author.

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.

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.

Yours,
Yuri Koryakov


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