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1# © 2016 and later: Unicode, Inc. and others.
2# License & terms of use: http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html
3# Generated using tools/cldr/cldr-to-icu/build-icu-data.xml
4#
5# File: zu_zu_FONIPA.txt
6# Generated from CLDR
7#
8
9# Pronunciation rules for isiZulu.
10#
11# Author: mjansche@google.com (Martin Jansche)
12#
13# These rules transcribe isiZulu into the phoneme inventory used within the
14# NCHLT Speech Corpus (https://sites.google.com/site/nchltspeechcorpus/home).
15#
16# The rules were tested using the NCHLT-inlang isiZulu pronunciation dictionary
17# (http://rma.nwu.ac.za/index.php/resource-catalogue/nchlt-inlang-dictionaries.html).
18# They correctly account for all 15,000 entries in the dictionary.
19#
20# The NCHLT 2013 phone set does not indicate tone in any way. Transcription of
21# tone is out of scope without a dictionary, since tone is generally not
22# indicated in the orthography. Nasal clicks are not treated as separated
23# phonemes in the NCHLT 2013 phone set and are transcribed as a sequence of
24# nasal plus click instead.
25#
26# One minor notational deviation from the NCHLT 2013 phone set is that we use a
27# tie bar within the complex (depressor) clicks, e.g. ɡ\u0361ǀ instead of ɡǀ, to
28# avoid ambiguity and make the phoneme inventory uniquely decodable.
29::Lower;
30tsh → t\u0361ʃʼ;
31bh → b;
32ch → ǀʰ;
33dl → ɮ;
34gc → ɡ\u0361ǀ;
35gq → ɡ\u0361ǃ;
36gx → ɡ\u0361ǁ;
37hh → ɦ;  # To investigate: /ɦ/ and /h/ may be switched in the NCHLT dictionary.
38hl → ɬ;
39kh → kʰ;
40kl → k\u0361ɬ;
41ny → ɲ;
42ph → pʰ;
43qh → ǃʰ;
44n { sh → t\u0361sʼ;
45sh → ʃ;
46th → tʰ;
47xh → ǁʰ;
48a → a;
49m { b → b;
50b → ɓ;
51c → ǀ;
52d → d;
53e → ɛ;
54f → f;
55g → ɡ;
56h → h;
57i → i;
58j → d\u0361ʒ;
59k → k;
60l → l;
61m → m;
62[$] { n } gc → n;
63n } [gk] → ŋ;
64n } j → ɲ;
65n → n;
66o → ɔ;
67p → pʼ;
68q → ǃ;
69n { s → t\u0361sʼ;
70s → s;
71t → tʼ;
72u → u;
73v → v;
74w → w;
75x → ǁ;
76y → j;
77n { z → d\u0361z;
78z → z;
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