User:Yahya Abdal-Aziz/sandbox

User page for Yahya Abdal-Aziz: a sandbox edit

This is a sandbox page for user Yahya Abdal-Aziz. Here I will experiment to test out proposed changes without messing up the main space.

yoyo (talk) 19:46, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

Generating IPA for Russian edit

Note that this uses a template from Wiktionary, not Wikipedia! And as a result, while it works here, it doesn't work on Wikipedia.

Term	Template call	Output
де́ться (détʹsja)	`{{ru-IPA\|де́ться}}`	IPA^(key): [ˈdʲet͡sːə]

Template:ru-IPA (extract) edit

This template automatically generates pronunciation for Russian words …

Examples edit

Stress edit

Most of the time you can just use the regular spelling of the word, with appropriate accent marks, as follows:

Use an acute accent (′) for primary stress. [Note: I'm using prime (′) rather than acute (ʼ) for its better stand-alone shape in my chosen browser font.]
Use a grave accent (`) for secondary stress.
Use a circumflex accent (^) for "tertiary stress", i.e. an unstressed syllable where the vowel isn't reduced when it normally would be.

Term	Template call	Output
чи́стить (čístitʹ)	`{{ru-IPA\|чи́стить}}`	IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ɕisʲtʲɪtʲ]
де́ться (détʹsja)	`{{ru-IPA\|де́ться}}`	IPA^(key): [ˈdʲet͡sːə]
счастли́вый (sčastlívyj)	`{{ru-IPA\|счастли́вый}}`	IPA^(key): [ɕːɪs⁽ʲ⁾ˈlʲivɨj]
антите́ло (antitélo)	`{{ru-IPA\|а̀нтите́ло}}`	IPA^(key): [ˌanʲtʲɪˈtʲeɫə]
ха́ос (xáos)	`{{ru-IPA\|ха́о̂с}}`	IPA^(key): [ˈxaos]

Test area edit

The following texts need transliteration and IPA:

Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens [Пляска половецких девушек] [пля́ска по́ловецких де́вушек]
Polovtsian Dance with Chorus [Половецкая пляска с хором] [по́ловецкая пля́ска с хо́ром]
Gliding Dance of the Maidens [Пляска девушек плавная] [пля́ска де́вушек пла́вная]
Wild Dance of the Men [Пляска мужчин дикая] [пля́ска ]
General Dance [Общая Пляска] [ пля́ска]
Dance of the Boys [Пляска мальчиков] [пля́ска ]
2nd Dance of the Men [Пляска мужчин] [пля́ска ]

Try first to use the template without adding accents:

English	Russian	Template call	Output
Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens	пля́ска по́ловецких де́вушек (pljáska póloveckix dévušek)	`{{ru-IPA\|пля́ска по́ловецких де́вушек}}`	IPA^(key): [ˈplʲaskə ˈpoɫəvʲɪt͡skʲɪɣ ˈdʲevʊʂɨk]
Polovtsian Dance with Chorus	по́ловецкая пля́ска с хо́ром (póloveckaja pljáska s xórom)	`{{ru-IPA\|по́ловецкая пля́ска с хо́ром}}`	IPA^(key): [ˈpoɫəvʲɪt͡skəjə ˈplʲaskə ˈs‿xorəm]
Gliding Dance of the Maidens	пля́ска де́вушек пла́вная (pljáska dévušek plávnaja)	`{{ru-IPA\|пля́ска де́вушек пла́вная}}`	IPA^(key): [ˈplʲaskə ˈdʲevʊʂɨk ˈpɫavnəjə]
Wild Dance of the Men	пля́ска мужчин дикая (pljáska mužčin dikaja)	`{{ru-IPA\|пля́ска мужчин дикая}}`	IPA^(key): [ˈplʲaskə mʊɕːɪn dʲɪkəjə]
General Dance	Общая пля́ска (Obščaja pljáska)	`{{ru-IPA\|Общая пля́ска}}`	IPA^(key): [ɐpɕːɪjə ˈplʲaskə]
Dance of the Boys	пля́ска мальчиков (pljáska malʹčikov)	`{{ru-IPA\|пля́ска мальчиков}}`	IPA^(key): [ˈplʲaskə məlʲt͡ɕɪkəf]
(2nd) Dance of the Men	пля́ска мужчин (pljáska mužčin)	`{{ru-IPA\|пля́ска мужчин}}`	IPA^(key): [ˈplʲaskə mʊɕːɪn]

The column headed "Russian" calls the template {{m|ru|пля́ска …}}, for instance, which outputs the given Russian text as a Wiktionary page name in Cyrillic (usually a redlink), together with a parenthesised and italicised direct transliteration. Whereas the "Template call" {{ru-IPA|пля́ска …}} outputs the IPA transcription only, e.g. IPA^(key): [ˈplʲaskə …].

So far, so good. Now I need to uncover the pronunciation of these Russian words & phrases (using Wiktionary, of course). Then I should be able to generate both acceptable transliterations (making due allowance for the romanization rules for Russian, such as use of /y/ rather than /j/ for Anglophones) and reasonable approximations to the Russian pronunciations using the IPA, with all the vowel reductions and assimilations that template applies.

yoyo (talk) 14:15, 19 May 2019 (UTC)