SAMPA - SAMPA SAMPA, for Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet, is a computer-readable phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters, based on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It was originally developed in the late 1980s for six European languages by the EEC ESPRIT information technology research and development program. As many symbols as possible have been taken over from the IPA; where this is not possible, other signs that are available are used, e.g. [@] for schwa, [2] for the vowel sound found in French deux and [9] for the vowel sound found in French neuf. Today, officially, SAMPA has been developed for all the sounds of the following languages: Arabic Bulgarian Cantonese Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian.
SAMPA chart for English - SAMPA chart for English A concise version of SAMPA for English sounds See a more complete SAMPA chart of sounds found in most of European languages. SAMPA: English Consonants SAMPA Examples p English pen b English but t English two d English do tS English chair, picture dZ English gin, joy k English cat, kill, queen g English go, get f English fool, enough v English voice T English thing D English this s English see, pass, city z English zoo, roses S English she, sure, emotion Z English pleasure h English ham m English man n English no J US English canyon N English singer, ring l English left 5 English milk (dark l) r English run, very 4 US English better w English we.
SAMPA chart - SAMPA chart SAMPA charts of consonants and vowels See a concise version of SAMPA for English sounds. Note that you will need a font that supports the Unicode IPA Extensions to see the IPA characters. SAMPA: simplified chart of consonants (the paired signs are voiceless/voiced consonants) Bilabial [[Labiodental consonant Labiodentals]] Dentals [[Alveolar consonant Alveolars]] [[Postalveolar consonant Postalveolars]] Palatals Velars Uvulars Pharyngeals Glottals Stops or affricates p b t d ts dz tS dZ c J k g q G\\ ? Fricatives p\\ B f v T D s z S Z C j\\ x G X R\\ X\\ ?\\ h h\\ Nasals m F n n^ N Laterals l L 5 .
Vegemite - Vegemite (pronounced "VEH-gee-mite", SAMPA: ["vEgimait]) is the registered brand name for a dark brown -- almost black -- salty food paste mainly used as a spread on sandwiches and toast, though occasionally used in cooking. It is based on a yeast extract. Invented in 1923 by Australian Fred Walker and Dr. Cyril P. Callister, it is now produced by Kraft Foods, a multinational company owned by the Phillip Morris group. Its taste and manufacture are similar to the British Marmite, and indeed the product was for a short time known as "Parwill" as a rather unfunny and unsuccessful pun on Marmite's name (as in the sentence: "Ma might not like the taste, but I'm sure Pa will"). Vegemite's current name was picked at random out of a hat of other possible.
Velar consonant - of the mouth, known also as the velum). Examples: English [g] (as in get or golf), [k] are velar stops Scots ch in loch is a velar fricative (SAMPA [x]) English ng in ring is a velar nasal (SAMPA [N]). Since the velar region of the roof of the mouth is relatively extensive and the movements of the dorsum are not very precise, velars easily undergo assimilation, shifting their articulation back or to the front depending on the quality of adjacent vowels. They often become automatically fronted, that is partly or completely palatal before a following front vowel, and retracted before back vowels. Palatalised velars (like English [k] in keen or cube) are sometimes referred to as palatovelars. Many languages also have labiovelar phonemes, including the approximant [w] and others given.
Kamadhenu - Kamadhenu Kamadhenu (SAMPA: /kam@Denu/) was a divine cow who was believed to be the mother of all Gods according to Hindu mythology. Like her daughter, she could grant any wish for the true seeker. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Kirshenbaum - and alt.usage.english. It is named after its creator, Evan Kirshenbaum. Like the more common SAMPA, the system uses lower case letters to represent the directly correspending IPA character. However, the mapping used to represent other characters often differs. For example - Sound SAMPA Kirshenbaum schwa @ @ æ { & script a A A open e E E theta T T edh D D esh S S ezh Z Z eng N N turned open o O O turned script a Q A. turned open e 3 V" primary stress " ' secondary stress % ,.
Klingon language - speak in English. A few years into its life, the child began rejecting Klingon and gravitating towards English. Klingon had lacked any words for things that were important in a baby's life, such as "diaper" and "pacifier". At the time, it even lacked words for many objects common around the house, such as "table". Paramount owns a copyright to the official dictionary and other canonical descriptions of the language. Some people dispute the validity of Paramount's claim of copyright on the language itself in light of the Feist v. Rural decision, but no challenge has actually been brought to court. A programming language called Var'aq was inspired by Klingon. SAMPA representation This is a tentative list of the SAMPA transcription of the Klingon phonemes as listed in Okrand's book. (As is.
Kyrgyz language - Kyrgyzstan, and is enjoying official endorsement again, but actual use is sporadic and inconsistent. The modified Cyrillic alphabet includes these additions, sounds are indicated using the SAMPA chart: Capital Small Name Sound Ң ң /N/ Ү ү /y/ Θ θ /9/ See also: Kyrgyz people, Languages of China.
J-circumflex - in Esperanto has a consistent sound, this letter is always pronounced the same; its sound is represented by [Z] in SAMPA. See also: Esperanto orthography, Ĉ, Ĝ, Ĥ, Ŝ, Ŭ.
J - be represented as I and J; therefore, English J has a sound quite different from I. In other Germanic languages J stands for /j/. In modern standard Italian only foreign or Latin words have J. Until the 19th century, J was used instead of I in diphthongs, as a replacement for final -ii, or in vowels groups (as in Savoja); this rule was quite strict for official writing. J is also used for rendering words in dialect, where it stands for /j/, e.g. Romanesque ajo for standard aglio (garlic). In Spanish J stands for /x/ (that in some cases developed from the /dZ/ sound, i.e. the same sound that English still has). In French former /dZ/ is now pronounced as /Z/ (as in English MEASURE). In Turkish, Azeri and Tatar J.
Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira - and went up to 23 representatives in the 2003 elections. The name Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira is pronounced in Catalan [Zu'zEp Lu'is k@'roD Ru'bir@] (SAMPA).
Icelandic language - new concepts, new Icelandic words are diligently forged for public use. Phonology Icelandic phonology is somewhat unusual for European languages in having an aspiration contrast in its stops, rather than a voicing contrast. However, Icelandic continuant phonemes exhibit regular contrasts in voice, including in nasals (rare in the world's languages). Additionally, length is contrastive for nearly all phonemes; voiceless sonorant consonants seem to be the only exception. The chart below was developed from data found at BRAGI and related pages; refer to the SAMPA Chart article for information on values of the symbols. Consonants bilabial interdental dental palatal velar glottal stops p / ph t / th c / ch k / kh fricatives f / v T / D s C x / G h nasals m.
Iguaçú Falls - del Iguazú or Cataratas del Iguassu; SAMPA [iGwa'su]) are waterfalls located on the border of Brazilian state of Paraná (in the Southern Region) and the Argentinian Province of Misiones, and are inside the Iguaçú National Park. Another important tourist attraction near the falls is the Itaipu hydroelectric power plant. The Iguaçú National Park is one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites..
Irish language - spoken in Ireland. The language is sometimes referred to in English as Gaelic (SAMPA: /"geIlIk/) or Irish Gaelic but is more generally referred to in Ireland simply as the Irish language or simply Irish. Use of the term Irish also avoids confusion with Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig na h-Alba), the closely-related language spoken in Scotland and usually referred to in English as simply Gaelic (SAMPA: /"gAlIk/). Irish has recently received a degree of formal recognition in Northern Ireland, under the Good Friday Agreement alongside a small minority language called Ulster Scots (though some critics have pointed out that Ulster Scots is not a language in its own right but simply a dialect of Lowland Scots). There is an Irish language version of Wikipedia at [1]. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Gaeltachtaí 2.
Itaipu - Itaipu Itaipu Dam (Portuguese: Itaipú; SAMPA [itaj'pu]) is the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world. It is situated along the Paraná River and produces 25% of the power of Brazil and 90% of Paraguay's. The plant is capable of producing power of 12,600 MW (megawatts), with 18 generator units of 700 MW each. The first generators started running in May 1984 and the final generator came online on April 9, 1991. It will be surpassed only by China's Three Gorges Dam, once it is completed. Itaipu is the largest power plant but not among the largest dams in the world. It has been declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. (Picture from Itaipu's website, free for distribution as long as.
H-circumflex - in Esperanto has a consistent sound, this letter is always pronounced the same; its sound is represented by [x] in SAMPA. In the case of the minuscule, some fonts place the circumflex over the mast of the h; others over the n-like part, beside the mast; and others, centred above the entire letter. See also: Esperanto orthography, Ĉ, Ĝ, Ĵ, Ŝ, Ŭ.
V - which developed from /w/; as German W -- which originally was pronounced as the English letter -- was pronounced /v/ since Middle High German times. At the same time, V was in German pronounced as in English, but the German Vau soon stood for /f/ again (the same is probably now happening in Dutch). See SAMPA Chart for pronunciation key. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z Victor represents the letter V in the NATO phonetic alphabet. V is also: The symbol for the element vanadium. The number five in Roman numerals The symbol V for the SI derived unit for electric potential, the volt The variable v for speed or velocity.
Houston Street - lost in the 1895 Houston Street lab fire. The street was widened in the late 19th century, which resulted in numerous small empty lots on both sides of the street where buildings were demolished. These lots are now used by vendors and some have been turned into community gardens. The street name Houston (SAMPA /"haUst@n/) confuses many people from outside of New York because the letters "ou" are pronounced as in the word house, whereas the same letters in the name of the city of Houston, Texas (SAMPA /"hju:st@n/ or /"ju:st@n/) are pronounced like the "u" in huge. This is due to the fact that Houston Street was named for a Georgia politician, William Houstoun (1755-1813) (note that the spelling is different), long before the fame of Sam Houston who is.
Hoosiers - choice of the readers of USA Today newspaper as the best sports movie of all time. In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film is loosely based on the story of the 1954 Indiana state champions, Milan (MILE-an to English-speakers; SAMPA 'maIl@n) High School. In most states, high schools are split into classes, usually by enrollment, and separate state championship tournaments are held for each classification. However, at that time, Indiana conducted a single state basketball championship for all schools, and continued to do so until the 1990s. Some elements of the film do match closely with those of Milan's real story. Like the movie's Hickory High School, Milan was a very small high.
