User:Yahya Abdal-Aziz/sandbox

User page for Yahya Abdal-Aziz: a sandbox
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
Note that this uses a template from Wiktionary, not Wikipedia! And as a result, while it works here, it doesn't work on Wikipedia.

Template:ru-IPA (extract)
This template automatically generates pronunciation for Russian words …

Stress
Most of the time you can just use the regular spelling of the word, with appropriate accent marks, as follows:
 * 1) 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.]
 * 2) Use a grave accent (`) for secondary stress.
 * 3) Use a circumflex accent (^) for  "tertiary stress", i.e. an unstressed syllable where the vowel isn't reduced when it normally would be.

Test area
The following texts need transliteration and IPA:
 * 1) Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens [Пляска половецких девушек] [пля́ска по́ловецких де́вушек]
 * 2) Polovtsian Dance with Chorus [Половецкая пляска с хором] [по́ловецкая пля́ска с хо́ром]
 * 3) Gliding Dance of the Maidens [Пляска девушек плавная] [пля́ска де́вушек пла́вная]
 * 4) Wild Dance of the Men [Пляска мужчин дикая] [пля́ска  ]
 * 5) General Dance [Общая Пляска] [ пля́ска]
 * 6) Dance of the Boys [Пляска мальчиков] [пля́ска  ]
 * 7) 2nd Dance of the Men [Пляска мужчин] [пля́ска  ]

Try first to use the template without adding accents:

The column headed "Russian" calls the template, 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" outputs the IPA transcription only, e.g..

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)