Sita transcriptions
Dec. 30th, 2009 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marnanelSome people have shown interest in the Shavian-subtitled Sita.
I'm not going to do any work on it in the next few weeks, because I'm quite busy at the moment, but I foresee a fairly major stumbling-block being the transcription of names, and in particular how to represent the vowels. Obviously there won't be a one-to-one mapping with English-language vowels anyway, but I want to do the best I can.
I am thinking that
I'm not going to do any work on it in the next few weeks, because I'm quite busy at the moment, but I foresee a fairly major stumbling-block being the transcription of names, and in particular how to represent the vowels. Obviously there won't be a one-to-one mapping with English-language vowels anyway, but I want to do the best I can.
I am thinking that
- Sita = ·𐑕𐑰𐑑𐑨, that is, the vowels in tree and cat, not the vowel in ago
- Rama = ·𐑮𐑭𐑥𐑨, that is, the vowels in mast (in the RP pronunciation) and cat
- Hanuman = ·𐑣𐑨𐑯𐑵𐑥𐑨𐑯, that is, the vowels in hand, soup, and man. Or is the final vowel more like the a in mast?
