Talk:Mono-Alu language

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Pronuncuation-guide very dialect-dependent.

The informal description of the phonology (like most informal pronunciation guides) compares the vowels of Mono-Alu to "English" in a way that is misleading to most English speakers, because the English vowels compared are pronounced very differently in different dialects of English. I'm guessing the guide is based on Recieved Pronunciation, or perhaps some kind of Australian or Solomon Islander English, since I think most Americans use the same vowel in "flat" and "fast", and since it's unlikely someone would write such a guide based on an obviously non-standard dialect unless the it was particularly likely to be the one spoken by people who want to learn the language. DubleH (talk) 04:26, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

For example, consider how I pronounce the following words: "flat" = [flætʰ], "fast" = [fæstʰ], "ten" = [tʰɪ̃n], "tin" = [tʰɪ̃n], "not" = [nɑtʰ], "put" = [pʰɨ̞tʰ], "aye" = [ɑ̈ɪ̝̯], "say" = [se̞ɪ̝̯] "boy" = [bo̽ɪ̝̯] "glass" = [ɡlæs], "giddy" = [ˈɡɪd̆i], "rug" = [ɻəːɡ], "gang" = [ɡẽ̞ːŋ], "ring" = [ɻɪ̝̃ŋ], "length" = [lɪ̝̃ŋkθ], "wrong" = [ɻɑ̃ːŋ]. At least some of these are obviously not what the person who wrote the guide was thinking of. ("Say", "boy", and "rug" were not used by the guide, but I thought they might be relevent.)DubleH (talk) 04:47, 16 January 2022 (UTC)