Help talk:IPA/Nepali

New IPA Page

Hi everyone, I just thought I'd create this page because there are a couple of Wikipedia pages with IPA's for Nepali pronunciations (e.g. Darjeeling and Kathmandu), so I believe this guide will help more with Nepali pronunciations across relevant Wikipedia articles. However, since I don't speak it, it would be very helpful if anyone fluent in the language or is a linguist can look at this as there may still be a few mistakes with this so if there are any errors present, please correct it, thank you. Broman178 (talk) 20:55, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Corrections

@Austronesier, Nardog, Broman178, John of Reading, Bruce1ee, Tspielberg, Aeusoes1, and Sol505000: For the monophthong "d", I prefer retaining the "the" as an approximation but changing "deal" to "derriere".-1Firang (talk) 03:44, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

For the IPA "d͡z ", I prefer using "jazz" and "budge" as approximations.--1Firang (talk) 03:48, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

For the IPA " d͡zʱ ", I prefer using "hedgehog" as an approximation.--1Firang (talk) 03:51, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

For the IPA "k", I prefer using "skip" as an approximation (instead of the present "scan") as it will be the same alphabet.--1Firang (talk) 03:55, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

For the IPA " kʰ ", I prefer using "derrickhand" and "Khanate" as approximations.--1Firang (talk) 04:00, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

For the IPA " ɳ", I prefer using "under" as an approximation.--1Firang (talk) 04:03, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

For the IPA "ŋ", the approximation mentioned is "sing" with "ng" in bold but I prefer it to be "sing" with only "n" in bold.-1Firang (talk) 04:07, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

For the IPA " pʰ", I prefer using "Clapham" as an approximation.--1Firang (talk) 04:11, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

For the IPA " ɾ", I prefer using "arise" as an approximation instead of the present "atom".--1Firang (talk) 04:14, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

For the IPA " t", I prefer replacing "stick" as an approximation with "three" but retaining the "birth" mentioned there.--1Firang (talk) 04:19, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

For the IPA "tʰ", I prefer replacing "tell" as an approximation with "thought" but retaining the "think" mentioned there at present.--1Firang (talk) 04:26, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

For the IPA "ʈʰ", I prefer replacing "partake" as an approximation with "anthill".-1Firang (talk) 04:35, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

For the IPA (diphthong) "ai̯", I prefer replacing "my" as an approximation with "naive".--1Firang (talk) 04:42, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

@Tspielberg: Please self revert this edit - I know that this difference exists for sure.-1Firang (talk) 05:08, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

If ईनार sounds too similar to इनाम please replace it with ईश्वरिय "eeshwariya" or ईश्वर "eeshwar".-1Firang (talk) 05:25, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

the difference doesnot exist see Nepali phonology - Wikipedia Tspielberg (talk) 08:41, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

@Tspielberg: As per Nepali_phonology#Vowels, "i", "ĩ", "u" and "ũ" all exist, so why are you removing the same in this Nepali IPA help page?-1Firang (talk) 08:49, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Just because you can't tell the difference in the spoken form, it doesn't mean that there is no difference in the written form!-1Firang (talk) 09:08, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Most of your suggestions belie a misunderstanding of English phonology as it is spoken by most speakers. I have gone through and removed the "Indian English" suggestions, as this is not as helpful for a generalized pronunciation guide, since most English speakers are not familiar enough with Indian English for this to be helpful. — Ƶ§œš¹ _{[lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt]} 15:08, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

@Aeusoes1: Please provide a diff of what you did - I can't see anything.-1Firang (talk) 16:44, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Oh, you know, I forgot to hit save. You can see them now. — Ƶ§œš¹ _{[lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt]} 20:16, 4 June 2023 (UTC)