icuSources/data/translit/xh_xh_FONIPA.txt

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   3 #
   4 # File: xh_xh_FONIPA.txt
   5 # Generated from CLDR
   6 #
   7
   8 # Pronunciation rules for isiXhosa.
   9 #
  10 # Author: mjansche@google.com (Martin Jansche)
  11 #
  12 # These rules transcribe isiXhosa into the phoneme inventory used within the
  13 # NCHLT Speech Corpus (https://sites.google.com/site/nchltspeechcorpus/home).
  14 #
  15 # The rules were tested using the NCHLT-inlang isiXhosa pronunciation dictionary
  16 # (http://rma.nwu.ac.za/index.php/resource-catalogue/nchlt-inlang-dictionaries.html).
  17 # They correctly account for 14,999 out of 15,000 entries in the dictionary.
  18 #
  19 # The NCHLT 2013 phone set does not distinguish short and long vowels and does
  20 # not indicate tone in any way. Transcription of tone is out of scope without a
  21 # dictionary, since tone is generally not indicated in the orthography. Nasal
  22 # clicks are not treated as separated phonemes in the NCHLT 2013 phone set and
  23 # are transcribed as a sequence of nasal plus click instead.
  24 #
  25 # One minor notational deviation from the NCHLT 2013 phone set is that we use a
  26 # tie bar within the complex (slack voiced) clicks, e.g. ɡ\u0361ǀ instead of ɡǀ, to
  27 # avoid ambiguity and make the phoneme inventory uniquely decodable.
  28 ::Lower;
  29 nyh → ɲʰ;
  30 n { tsh → t\u0361ʃʼ;
  31 tsh → t\u0361ʃʰ;
  32 tyh → cʰ;
  33 bh → bʰ;
  34 ch → ǀʰ;
  35 dl → ɮ;
  36 dy → ɟ;
  37 gc → ɡ\u0361ǀ;
  38 gq → ɡ\u0361ǃ;
  39 gr → ɣ;
  40 gx → ɡ\u0361ǁ;
  41 hl → ɬ;
  42 kh → kʰ;
  43 kr → k\u0361x;
  44 mh } [^l] → mʰ;  # <mhl> denotes /mɬ/ instead
  45 nh → nʰ;
  46 ny → ɲ;
  47 ph → pʰ;
  48 qh → ǃʰ;
  49 sh → ʃ;
  50 th → tʰ;
  51 tl → t\u0361ɬʼ;
  52 ts → t\u0361sʼ;
  53 ty → cʼ;
  54 xh → ǁʰ;
  55 aa → | a;
  56 ee → | e;
  57 ii → | i;
  58 kc → | c;
  59 kq → | q;
  60 mm → | m;
  61 oo → | o;
  62 rh → | r;
  63 uu → | u;
  64 a → a;
  65 b → ɓ;
  66 c → ǀ;
  67 d → d;
  68 e → ɛ;
  69 f → f;
  70 g → ɡ;
  71 h → h;
  72 i → i;
  73 j → d\u0361ʒ;
  74 k → kʼ;
  75 l → l;
  76 m → m;
  77 n } g → ŋ;
  78 n → n;
  79 o → ɔ;
  80 p → pʼ;
  81 q → ǃ;
  82 r → r;
  83 s → s;
  84 t → tʼ;
  85 u → u;
  86 v → v;
  87 w → w;
  88 x → ǁ;
  89 y → j;
  90 z → z;
  91