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1# © 2016 and later: Unicode, Inc. and others.
2# License & terms of use: http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#License
3#
4# File: tlh_tlh_FONIPA.txt
5# Generated from CLDR
6#
7
8# Transformation from Klingon (tlh) to its IPA transcription (tlh_FONIPA).
9# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language#Phonology
10# http://www.kli.org/tlh/sounds.html
11::NFC;
12tlh → t\u0361ɬ;
13# Dipthongs as per http://www.kli.org/tlh/sounds.html. For those that
14# exist in English, we following the American English pronunciation.
15# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diphthong#English
16aw → aʊ\u032F; # similar to English ‹cow›
17ew → ɛʊ\u032F; # does not exist in English
18Iw → ɪʊ\u032F; # des not exist English
19ay → aɪ\u032F; # similar to English ‹why›
20ey → eɪ\u032F; # similar to English ‹may›
21Iy → ɪː; # KLI says like English ‹key›, which is not a diphthong
22oy → oɪ\u032F; # KLI says English ‹boy›, which would be [ɔɪ\u032F], but ‹o› is [o]
23uy → uɪ\u032F; # similar to English ‹gooey› but in on syllable
24ch → t\u0361ʃ;
25gh → ɣ;
26ng → ŋ;
27p → pʰ;
28t → tʰ;
29q → qʰ;
30’ → ʔ;
31\' → ʔ;
32b → b;
33D → ɖ;
34Q → q\u0361χ;
35j → d\u0361ʒ;
36S → ʂ;
37H → x;
38v → v;
39m → m;
40n → n;
41r → r;
42w → w;
43l → l;
44y → j;
45a → ɑ;
46e → ɛ;
47I → ɪ;
48o → o;
49u → u;
50\- → ;
51::NFC;
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