Module:Auphen/YAR-AI/doc

This is the documentation for Module:Auphen/YAR-AI, the sound data for Middle Airananwe (registry code YAR-AI) on the Yezur wiki. It contains no code: it returns a table of sound categories and rules which Module:Auphen/frame loads and hands to the engine, Module:Auphen. It is reached through {{auphen|word|YAR-AI}}, which returns an estimated pronunciation between slashes. The dictionary's practice for the language is set out at Dictionary:About Middle Airananwe.

Fields

Field	Purpose
ipacats	The sound categories the rules refer to, written in sounds rather than letters. [V] and [C], the vowels and the consonants, are used as environments; [D] the voiced obstruents and [T] their voiceless counterparts are the target and the change of the final-devoicing rule, mapped member for member in the order declared (b d g v z ð ɣ ʑ ɟ against p t k f s θ x ɕ c). [V] and [C] also list sounds the rules themselves produce, such as the laxed vowels and [ʀ], so that later rules still see them.
ipa_rules	The letter-to-sound mapping, applied left to right before the ruleset runs. The digraphs are listed first, and the engine takes the longest spelling that fits at each position, so a digraph is read before its component letters.
pronounce	The pronunciation ruleset, run in the order written over the output of ipa_rules.
sets	Named rulesets for grammar forms. Empty for this language; see below.

Orthography

The mapping covers the letters a b c d e f g h i k l m n o p q r s t u v x y z. Most carry their own value; the rest, with the digraphs, are:

Spelling	Sound
aa ee ii oo uu	the long vowels /aː eː iː oː uː/, carried through the mapping as ā ē ī ō ū and given their length mark by pronounce
mb nd ng	/ᵐb ⁿd ᵑg/
bh gh ph th dh	/β ɣ p͡ɸ θ ð/
c ch	/ʦ ʧ/
ty dy ny ly sy zy ky gy	/tʲ dʲ ɲ ʎ ɕ ʑ c ɟ/
q gu	/kʷ gʷ/
x y	/kʃ j/

There are no rules for sh or j: they are not part of the orthography, their work being done by sy and zy, and the language accordingly has no /ʃ/ or /ʒ/. Outside the eight digraphs of the palatal series, ⟨y⟩ is left as the glide /j/ — vyala gives /vjala/. Because the longest spelling wins at each position, ⟨gu⟩ is taken before ⟨uu⟩ in guu, which leaves a bare ⟨u⟩ for pronounce to lengthen.

Pronunciation

pronounce supplies the allophony. The coronals t d s z n l palatalise before i, short or long; n is [ŋ] before a velar; r is [ʀ] word-initially and [ɾ] between vowels, where h is likewise [ɦ]; the short vowels lax to [ɛ ɔ ɪ ʊ ä] before two consonants or before a word-final one, a prenasalised stop counting as a single consonant, so that embaa keeps its [e]; and e weakens to [ə] after a vowel and word-finally. A voiced obstruent is then made voiceless word-finally, which reaches the stop of a final prenasalised cluster as well (kamb gives /käᵐp/). The last rules write the long vowels with the length mark, lengthen a /u/ left standing after /gʷ/, and give /gʷ/ a following /u/ before a consonant and at the end of a word. Stress is fixed on the penultimate syllable and is neither written nor marked in the output.

[ŋ] is not itself a member of [C], so a short vowel before ⟨nk⟩, ⟨nq⟩ or ⟨nx⟩ is not laxed: senta gives /sɛnta/ but senka gives /seŋka/.

Spelling	Output	Shows
sido	/ɕido/	a coronal palatalised before i
zyerta	/ʑɛrta/	a short vowel laxed in a closed syllable
arahe	/aɾaɦə/	intervocalic r and h; final e
maged	/magɛt/	final devoicing, the spelling keeping the voiced stem
gulda	/gʷulda/	⟨gu⟩ before a consonant
guu	/gʷuː/	⟨gu⟩ taken first, the leftover ⟨u⟩ lengthened
hayraanye	/häjraːɲə/	the native name of the language

Rulesets

sets is empty, so {{auphen|word|YAR-AI|ruleset}} reports an unknown ruleset for any name given and files the page in Category:Auphen errors. The language's single noun declension is built instead by Module:MiddleAirananwe through Template:YAR-AI-decl, which assembles the forms from the spelling rather than deriving them with the engine.

Editing this page changes every estimated pronunciation in the language; the entries that call {{auphen}} serve the old output from the parser cache until they are purged. The engine's own behaviour, and where it diverges from the notation it ports, is logged at Module talk:Auphen.