LL-L "Language varieties" 2002.06.27 (04) [E]

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Language varieties"

> From: Glenn Simpson <westwylam at YAHOO.CO.UK>
> Subject: Language Samples
>
> The modern Northumbrian language sample - I'm fascinated by some of the
> similarities between my language & others. It would be great if some of
> this could be put together in some sort of publication.
>
> ENGLISH -   Northumbrian
> 011: one - wern
> 018: person - porson
> 026: root - ruoot
> 030: blood - blood, blurd
> 031: bone - bane, burn
> 037: hair - hi'er
> 043: tooth - tooth, tuith
> 072: sun - surn
> 077: stone - sturn, stane
> 084: burn - born
> 097: good - gurd

Glenn,

I'm afraid the above spellings leave me completely puzzled,
especially the "ur". How is this pronounced - surely not
with the breathy, uvular "r" of Northumbian?

Such things as "hi'er" and "ruoot" leave me with no basis
for comparison at all!

Could you possibly put these into the characters used on
the SAMPA pages at:

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm

It's not all that easy, but maybe worth working at so you
can get the sounds of your language across on this list.

A couple of other things I've been wondering about:

> 001: I, me - I, me

Would "Aw" be a better representation of "I"? I know I just
used "I" in my Scots list, but I was just using generally
accepted spellings with no attempt to represent the pronunciation!

> 012: two - two

It's probably about 20 years since I've heard "proper"
Northumbrian spoken, but I'd thought "tweh" (by which I
mean /twE:/ in SAMPA) was how I'd heard "two" pronounced.

Sandy
http://scotstext.org
A dinna dout him, for he says that he
On nae accoont wad ever tell a lee.
                          - C.W.Wade,
                    'The Adventures o McNab'

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