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¤Zulu-Zulu (IPA Phonetics)

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…/transforms/transform[@source="zu"][@target="zu_FONIPA"][@direction="forward"]/tRule▷missing◁# Pronunciation rules for isiZulu.
#
# Author: mjansche@google.com (Martin Jansche)
#
# These rules transcribe isiZulu into the phoneme inventory used within the
# NCHLT Speech Corpus (https://sites.google.com/site/nchltspeechcorpus/home).
#
# The rules were tested using the NCHLT-inlang isiZulu pronunciation dictionary
# (http://rma.nwu.ac.za/index.php/resource-catalogue/nchlt-inlang-dictionaries.html).
# They correctly account for all 15,000 entries in the dictionary.
#
# The NCHLT 2013 phone set does not indicate tone in any way. Transcription of
# tone is out of scope without a dictionary, since tone is generally not
# indicated in the orthography. Nasal clicks are not treated as separated
# phonemes in the NCHLT 2013 phone set and are transcribed as a sequence of
# nasal plus click instead.
#
# One minor notational deviation from the NCHLT 2013 phone set is that we use a
# tie bar within the complex (depressor) clicks, e.g. ɡ͡ǀ instead of ɡǀ, to
# avoid ambiguity and make the phoneme inventory uniquely decodable.

::Lower;

tsh → t͡ʃʼ;

bh → b;
ch → ǀʰ;
dl → ɮ;
gc → ɡ͡ǀ;
gq → ɡ͡ǃ;
gx → ɡ͡ǁ;
hh → ɦ; # To investigate: /ɦ/ and /h/ may be switched in the NCHLT dictionary.
hl → ɬ;
kh → kʰ;
kl → k͡ɬ;
ny → ɲ;
ph → pʰ;
qh → ǃʰ;
n { sh → t͡sʼ;
sh → ʃ;
th → tʰ;
xh → ǁʰ;

a → a;
m { b → b;
b → ɓ;
c → ǀ;
d → d;
e → ɛ;
f → f;
g → ɡ;
h → h;
i → i;
j → d͡ʒ;
k → k;
l → l;
m → m;
[$] { n } gc → n;
n } [gk] → ŋ;
n } j → ɲ;
n → n;
o → ɔ;
p → pʼ;
q → ǃ;
n { s → t͡sʼ;
s → s;
t → tʼ;
u → u;
v → v;
w → w;
x → ǁ;
y → j;
n { z → d͡z;
z → z;