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How do I transcribe Persian Is there a website or
something that gives a list of
the sounds in Persian as they
correspond to Persian
orthography and the IPA?
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Transcription into IPA from any language is the same - the sounds you write down are the sounds you hear, so it almost doesn't matter what the language is (depending on how close a transcription you want to make). Having said that, it does help to have some idea of what is being said, and also we don't always say exactly what "should" be in the word and this is usually mirrored in phonetic transcription. for example: the difference between /p/ and /b/ is only that for one the vocal folds vibrate and for the other they don't. If, in speech, someone said "pack" for "back" it would be transcribed as a "devoiced" /b/ rather than /p/. From your question, it looks like you might be trying to translate from written Persian? This is more difficult depending on the alphabet it is written in and your knowledge of Persian, as some Arabic alphabets do not include the short vowel sounds; they have to be inserted from the reader's knowledge of the language and semantic context. You might find this article helpful: http://delivery.acm.org/10.114 5/1070000/1066081/p38-hendessi .pdf?key1=1066081&key2=6022894 911&coll=&dl=&CFID=15151515&CF TOKEN=6184618 Scroll down and you'll find a table of the phonetic symbols of Persian sounds. Good Luck! Sus |
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Orthography - important or Does a lack of proper
orthography affect the way you
view your fellow Yahoo!
Answers brethren? If so, do
you feel your view is
justified?
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As long as the meaning is fully conveyed it's not much of a problem. I'm fully aware that many people here are not native English speakers, some are dyslectics, some are young, and so on. The problems comes when some people don't even try to write correctly, or when the meaning is so blurred that you can't understand what's being said. One problem you maybe forget if you're a native speaker is that a wrongly spelt word is more difficult to check in the dictionary for us non-native speakers, because it might be difficult to find out the correct spelling if you don't even know the word. I noticed many Americans have great difficulties spelling their own language correctly. |
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What is orthography? Help!!!?
Can someone please dumb down
for me what orthography is???
Is it just what language it
comes from???? Thanks!
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Orthography is simply how a language is written. Whether it be spelled using letters of the Roman alphabet (like English) or Cyrillic (like Russian) or a syllabary (like Japanese) or pictographs (like Chinese). Any form of writing that a language has is its orthography. |
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Orthography question?
What is the orthography of the
English, German and French
languages
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Orthography is the method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols - in other words - spelling. |
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Can anyone recommend a modern, I've downloaded Henry Jenner's
1904 "Handbook of the Cornish
Language", which seems very
fine, but I would like to find
something based on a more
accessible orthography,
preferably the Common Cornish
system (Kernewek Kemmyn), and
with a phonological
description based on the
International Phonetic
Alphabet.
Please cite author, publisher
and (if there is one)
International Standard Book
Number.
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I haven't got any books to recommend, but try and look at this page: http://www.omniglot.com/writin g/cornish.htm Perhaps there's something interesting for you. |
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