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French IPA
editMay I ask where you're getting these pronunciations from? Nardog (talk) 01:32, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
- Sure! From Wiktionary, using from this template which can be found in various French entries. I mean while I use it to get the IPA symbols, I know a little bit of French as well, I know what sound does each letter or letter combination make. ڤٌّ (talk) 05:12, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
- How do you know Ormancey, Amey, Baraguey, Ferey, Meynier, Peytes, and Reynier have [ɛj] rather than [ɛ]?
- How do you know Hilliers and Martillière have [j] and not [lj]? Nardog (talk) 02:04, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- Those were by mistake I think. Sorry for that. ڤٌّ (talk) 04:54, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- Then how do you know they're [ɛ]/[lj] and not [ɛj]/[j]? It's not a rhetorical question, I'm genuinely asking. Nardog (talk) 06:52, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- I know that way because I learned that way, whether it is true. I doubted that it should have been /lj/ instead of /j/, but the template generates it in a wrong way. I hesitated fixing it, because I thought that I might have been wrong. Anyway, for this /ɛj/ thing, haven't I got that one true already? The digraph "ei" is /ɛ/, so shouldn't "ey" be /ɛj/? ڤٌّ (talk) 09:38, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- What template? You mean Wiktionary's {{fr-IPA}}? If you're relying on it to generate transcriptions and you personally can't vouch for their accuracy, please stop immediately.
- What does the value of ⟨ei⟩ have to do with the value of ⟨ey⟩??? Duden's Das Aussprachewörterbuch, for example, includes at least 30 French words ending in -ey, and they're all transcribed to end with [ɛ], not [ɛj]. I don't know of a word where ⟨ey⟩ is not followed by a vowel yet is pronounced [ɛj]. Nardog (talk) 10:32, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- First of all I didn't change the meaning of your messages, I just merged them while specifically trying to keep its meaning the same. Why I did so was because I like to keep discussions in one, continuous thread. That's that, about this other thing, I think I'm going to make IPA changes that I can vouch for. Anyhow, the words that I transcribed as /ɛj/ did not end in -ey, they had -ey- before the last syllable. But I reckon that's inaccurate regardless, so correct me if I'm wrong. By the way are you a native French speaker? ڤٌّ (talk) 12:12, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- I know that way because I learned that way, whether it is true. I doubted that it should have been /lj/ instead of /j/, but the template generates it in a wrong way. I hesitated fixing it, because I thought that I might have been wrong. Anyway, for this /ɛj/ thing, haven't I got that one true already? The digraph "ei" is /ɛ/, so shouldn't "ey" be /ɛj/? ڤٌّ (talk) 09:38, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- Then how do you know they're [ɛ]/[lj] and not [ɛj]/[j]? It's not a rhetorical question, I'm genuinely asking. Nardog (talk) 06:52, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- Those were by mistake I think. Sorry for that. ڤٌّ (talk) 04:54, 30 June 2024 (UTC)