It is my philosophy that word lists for the purpose of translation
should be maintained in the simplest possible format, offloading
the complexity to search and translation tools.
The goal being, to provide users with the ability to easily modify
the database and to quickly develop code.
A
post on
Slashdot asked the
question, how does one transliterate numbers of arbitrary bases?
For example the number
"
562" is transliterated as "five hundred sixty two"
but how would one transliterate the hex number
"
0xDEADBEEF"?
The text below attempts to answer that question using two methods.
The first is a rigorous and technically accurate method but is difficult
to use.
The second is technically less rigorous but is simple to use.
To display the IPA phonetic symbols correctly in a web browser,
the browser must be Unicode compliant and a Unicode font, such as
Lucida Sans Unicode,
must be installed.
Consonants
The standard German consonant system is considered to have 17 or 19
obstruent phonemes (depending on whether two peripheral sounds are
included, which occur only in loanwords), and five sonorants. The
obstruents comprise six plosives, three (or four) affricates, and eight
(or nine) fricatives, though there are two auditorily distinct fricatives
(x and C) which are usually considered to be allophonic variants, giving
ten fricatives in all that require distinct symbolic representation. [For
some purposes it is convenient to give explicit representation to the
glottal stop, too.]
Below is a list of all English phonemes with examples
using IPA and SAMPA characters.
If this subject is of interest, then visit the
English Phonetic Transcription page.
It is a transliteration tool that converts English text into phonemes
by means of the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
in either IPA, SAMPA, CMU, HTML, or LaTeX format.
To display the IPA phonetic symbols correctly in a web browser,
the browser must be Unicode compliant and a Unicode font, such as
Lucida Sans Unicode,
must be installed.
Consonants
The standard English consonant system is traditionally considered to
comprise 17 obstruents (6 plosives, 2 affricates and 9 fricatives)
and 7 sonorants (3 nasals, 2 liquids and 2 semivowel glides).
