Re: Zvelebil/Epstein/McReynold Comparison
Marketa J Zvelebil 
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 08:32:54 +0000

Rob Zook wrote:

> Ok, I thought it might help everyone if we can look at all the
> proposed revisions of the Zvelebil Transcriptions so far. For this post
> I'm going to compare the ascii only versions:
>

Seeing the comparissons I go - generelly with the Epstein, with only one
change, and
that due to the fact that the way it has been written in books etc should
stay that is
the "y" should stay as ai: so that t'hyla should be written with "y" and
not ai.
Otherwise please lets adopt the Epstein transcription and get on with
developing
the language and making web pages and bringing it to the outside world.
See below for some additions where a "-" was found:

I am not sure about "c" being 'SH' in shoe. That may confuse many people.
why not keep sh as sh in shoe and c as ts in tsunami????  Again this keeps
in with
what has been published in books with respect to Shikar etc.

> Original                                  Brit
> Zvelebil: Epstein:   English:
>    i         i         pit
>    u         u          put
>    e         e            set
>    o         o            not
>    ^         ^             but
>    a         a                patte(*)
>    i:(#)     ii(#)          mean
>    u:(#)     uu(#)           prune
>    e:(#)     ee(#)              prenez(*)
>    o:(#)     oo(#)             fault
>    ^:(#)     ^^(#)           sir
>    a:(#)     aa(#)          (never established)
>    p         p                 put
>    b         b                but
>    f         f                 fair
>    v         v                voice
>    w~        wh             --
>    w         w              wild
>    m         m                 milk
>    t         t                tip
>    d         d             dip
>    th        th              --
>    dh        dh               --
>    n         n                  nose
>    c         ts *C*             tsunami
>    z         z                 zork
>    sh        c   *SH*             shoe
>    zh        j                a_z_ure
>    k         k                  ken
>    g         g                got
>    x         x               loch
>    h         h              hog
>    ng        ng              ru_ng_
>    ks        ks                 a_x_e
>    q         q            quite   --
>    j         y                  yellow
>    r         rr              --        (Maybe get rid of this one!!??)
>    l         l                laugh
>    w~l       whl           --
>    rh        r                red*
>    dzh       dj               judge
>    n~        n~             man~ana(!)
>    y         ai  *Y*              p_ie_
>    oy        oi             b_oy_

                  Dr. Marketa J Zvelebil,
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