icuSources/data/translit/zu_zu_FONIPA.txt

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   3 #
   4 # File: zu_zu_FONIPA.txt
   5 # Generated from CLDR
   6 #
   7
   8 # Pronunciation rules for isiZulu.
   9 #
  10 # Author: mjansche@google.com (Martin Jansche)
  11 #
  12 # These rules transcribe isiZulu 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 isiZulu pronunciation dictionary
  16 # (http://rma.nwu.ac.za/index.php/resource-catalogue/nchlt-inlang-dictionaries.html).
  17 # They correctly account for all 15,000 entries in the dictionary.
  18 #
  19 # The NCHLT 2013 phone set does not indicate tone in any way. Transcription of
  20 # tone is out of scope without a dictionary, since tone is generally not
  21 # indicated in the orthography. Nasal clicks are not treated as separated
  22 # phonemes in the NCHLT 2013 phone set and are transcribed as a sequence of
  23 # 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 (depressor) clicks, e.g. ɡ\u0361ǀ instead of ɡǀ, to
  27 # avoid ambiguity and make the phoneme inventory uniquely decodable.
  28 ::Lower;
  29 tsh → t\u0361ʃʼ;
  30 bh → b;
  31 ch → ǀʰ;
  32 dl → ɮ;
  33 gc → ɡ\u0361ǀ;
  34 gq → ɡ\u0361ǃ;
  35 gx → ɡ\u0361ǁ;
  36 hh → ɦ;  # To investigate: /ɦ/ and /h/ may be switched in the NCHLT dictionary.
  37 hl → ɬ;
  38 kh → kʰ;
  39 kl → k\u0361ɬ;
  40 ny → ɲ;
  41 ph → pʰ;
  42 qh → ǃʰ;
  43 n { sh → t\u0361sʼ;
  44 sh → ʃ;
  45 th → tʰ;
  46 xh → ǁʰ;
  47 a → a;
  48 m { b → b;
  49 b → ɓ;
  50 c → ǀ;
  51 d → d;
  52 e → ɛ;
  53 f → f;
  54 g → ɡ;
  55 h → h;
  56 i → i;
  57 j → d\u0361ʒ;
  58 k → k;
  59 l → l;
  60 m → m;
  61 [$] { n } gc → n;
  62 n } [gk] → ŋ;
  63 n } j → ɲ;
  64 n → n;
  65 o → ɔ;
  66 p → pʼ;
  67 q → ǃ;
  68 n { s → t\u0361sʼ;
  69 s → s;
  70 t → tʼ;
  71 u → u;
  72 v → v;
  73 w → w;
  74 x → ǁ;
  75 y → j;
  76 n { z → d\u0361z;
  77 z → z;
  78