1# © 2016 and later: Unicode, Inc. and others. 2# License & terms of use: http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#License 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; 29tsh → t\u0361ʃʼ; 30bh → b; 31ch → ǀʰ; 32dl → ɮ; 33gc → ɡ\u0361ǀ; 34gq → ɡ\u0361ǃ; 35gx → ɡ\u0361ǁ; 36hh → ɦ; # To investigate: /ɦ/ and /h/ may be switched in the NCHLT dictionary. 37hl → ɬ; 38kh → kʰ; 39kl → k\u0361ɬ; 40ny → ɲ; 41ph → pʰ; 42qh → ǃʰ; 43n { sh → t\u0361sʼ; 44sh → ʃ; 45th → tʰ; 46xh → ǁʰ; 47a → a; 48m { b → b; 49b → ɓ; 50c → ǀ; 51d → d; 52e → ɛ; 53f → f; 54g → ɡ; 55h → h; 56i → i; 57j → d\u0361ʒ; 58k → k; 59l → l; 60m → m; 61[$] { n } gc → n; 62n } [gk] → ŋ; 63n } j → ɲ; 64n → n; 65o → ɔ; 66p → pʼ; 67q → ǃ; 68n { s → t\u0361sʼ; 69s → s; 70t → tʼ; 71u → u; 72v → v; 73w → w; 74x → ǁ; 75y → j; 76n { z → d\u0361z; 77z → z; 78 79