r/linguisticshumor • u/NebularCarina I hāpī nei au i te vānaŋa Rapa Nui (ko au he repa Hiva). • Feb 17 '25

Phonetics/Phonology Pronunciation of <c>

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u/oshaboy Feb 18 '25

Because IPA is fucky and it's actually a dental click /ǀ/

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u/ReoPurzelbaum Feb 18 '25

/|/, not /l/. Minor difference in appearance, but huge difference in realisation:D

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u/Areyon3339 Feb 18 '25

it's /ǀ/, it looks identical to /l/ in this font but the unicode character is different

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u/ReoPurzelbaum Feb 18 '25

It's unicode character U+007C, which is the one I used. You can literally copy and paste it from an IPA chart.

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u/Areyon3339 Feb 18 '25

the dental click is U+01C0 which is ǀ (https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+01C0)

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u/ReoPurzelbaum Feb 18 '25

You're right! Which is very interesting, because most German publications use U+007C and I didn't expect there to be a difference to international standard ('cause that's really undermining the while Unicode/IPA thing) Thanks for pointing it out!