<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE supplementalData SYSTEM "../../common/dtd/ldmlSupplemental.dtd"> <!-- Copyright © 1991-2015 Unicode, Inc. CLDR data files are interpreted according to the LDML specification (http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/) For terms of use, see http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html --> <supplementalData> <version number="$Revision: 12347 $" /> <transforms> <transform source="zu" target="zu_FONIPA" direction="forward" alias="zu-fonipa-t-zu"> <tRule><![CDATA[ # Pronunciation rules for isiZulu. # # Author: mjansche@google.com (Martin Jansche) # # These rules transcribe isiZulu into the phoneme inventory used within the # NCHLT Speech Corpus (https://sites.google.com/site/nchltspeechcorpus/home). # # The rules were tested using the NCHLT-inlang isiZulu pronunciation dictionary # (http://rma.nwu.ac.za/index.php/resource-catalogue/nchlt-inlang-dictionaries.html). # They correctly account for all 15,000 entries in the dictionary. # # The NCHLT 2013 phone set does not indicate tone in any way. Transcription of # tone is out of scope without a dictionary, since tone is generally not # indicated in the orthography. Nasal clicks are not treated as separated # phonemes in the NCHLT 2013 phone set and are transcribed as a sequence of # nasal plus click instead. # # One minor notational deviation from the NCHLT 2013 phone set is that we use a # tie bar within the complex (depressor) clicks, e.g. ɡ͡ǀ instead of ɡǀ, to # avoid ambiguity and make the phoneme inventory uniquely decodable. ::Lower; tsh → t͡ʃʼ; bh → b; ch → ǀʰ; dl → ɮ; gc → ɡ͡ǀ; gq → ɡ͡ǃ; gx → ɡ͡ǁ; hh → ɦ; # To investigate: /ɦ/ and /h/ may be switched in the NCHLT dictionary. hl → ɬ; kh → kʰ; kl → k͡ɬ; ny → ɲ; ph → pʰ; qh → ǃʰ; n { sh → t͡sʼ; sh → ʃ; th → tʰ; xh → ǁʰ; a → a; m { b → b; b → ɓ; c → ǀ; d → d; e → ɛ; f → f; g → ɡ; h → h; i → i; j → d͡ʒ; k → k; l → l; m → m; [$] { 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; ]]></tRule> </transform> </transforms> </supplementalData>