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 | |||