[Lingtyp] IPA for linguists' names

[Hartmut Haberland]

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 katakana, with a number of variations, in part based on spelling rather than pronunciation. I would go for ハートムート・ハーバーランド, since it is closest to the way I pronounce my name (Northern German, grown up in Hanover) and not least because ハーバーランド is also the name of a shopping mall in Kobe (Harborland, of course) 😊. ( ハートムット・ハバーランドis OK, too, of course, and one could indeed discuss if ムットis not more adequate by focussing on the unstressed vowel indeed being short while its tenseness is better expressed by ムート;  ハーバーランドis definitely the better solution.)
Hartmut Haberland
[haɐ̯tmu:t hɑ:bεɐ̯lant]
Professor (mso) emeritus
[KORAL_GRAA_300][KORAL_GRAA_300]
Roskilde Universitet
Institut for Kommunikation og Humanistisk Videnskab
Universitetsvej 1
DK-4000 Roskilde
Telefon: +45 46742841


Fra: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> På vegne af Yuri Koryakov via Lingtyp
Sendt: 5. september 2026 17:58
Til: lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
Emne: [Lingtyp] IPA for linguists' names

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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