Both are copied from the Finnish phonemes, since Finnish was a major inspiration for Quenya. This means that the ⟨iu⟩ diphthong is a “falling” one – according to Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings, this is the original pronunciation, but by the Third Age (the time in which The Lord of the Rings is set) it had become a “rising” one, so I may change the phoneme later, not sure.master
@@ -412,6 +412,7 @@ phsource/phonemes.stamp: \ | |||
phsource/ph_punjabi \ | |||
phsource/ph_pyash \ | |||
phsource/ph_quechua \ | |||
phsource/ph_quenya \ | |||
phsource/ph_romanian \ | |||
phsource/ph_russian \ | |||
phsource/ph_russian_lv \ |
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ | |||
.group i | |||
i i | |||
// TODO iu (no suitable diphthong in ph_latin) | |||
iu (+ iu | |||
// light penultimate syllable: put stress on antepenultimate | |||
i (AX =i | |||
i (CAX =i | |||
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ | |||
.group u | |||
u u | |||
// TODO ui (no suitable diphthong in ph_latin) | |||
ui (+ ui | |||
// light penultimate syllable: put stress on antepenultimate | |||
u (AX =u | |||
u (CAX =u |
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ | |||
phoneme ui | |||
vwl starttype #u endtype #i | |||
length 270 | |||
lng | |||
FMT(vdiph/ui_4) | |||
endphoneme | |||
phoneme iu | |||
vwl starttype #i endtype #u | |||
length 280 | |||
lng | |||
FMT(vdiph2/iu_2) | |||
endphoneme |
@@ -1921,8 +1921,9 @@ phonemetable py eo | |||
include ph_pyash | |||
phonemetable qya la | |||
include ph_quenya | |||
phonemetable sjn qya | |||
phonemetable sjn la | |||
phonemetable es-la es | |||
include ph_spanish_la |