IPA transcription for Danish, German, others

[doe_witch]

Hello hello. I could really use some IPA transcription for how to pronounce the following names/words in their respective languages, since none of those languages are my forte and reading the phonology pages on Wikipedia is not something I really have time for on this. XD I have some idea about a few of these, but anything that can be provided

Comments

[sonnekinde]

The Dutch one is 'ɣʌutsmɪt, at least in my Northern accent. Southern would probably be 'ʝɔutsmɪt.

[muckefuck]

"Leiden" should probably be in the Dutch list as well, not the German, unless it's a surname.

[sonnekinde]

Oh, yeah. I didn't see that one, I just looked at what it said after "Dutch."

If it's indeed supposed to be the Dutch city, then Leiden is pronounced 'lɛidə(n).

[muckefuck]

If it's German, on the other hand, it would be [ˈlaedn̩], more or less.

You can listen to both pronunciations here: http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Leiden_Stadt.

[tisoi]

I never heard of Heligoland, but my first inclination is to pronounce it [ˌhɛɫɨgoʊˈɫæ̃nd] or something.

Also - look up these words on Forvo - you can hear the pronunciation. Hearing Copenhagen in Danish is just amazing lol

[pne]

Pretty similar for me, though I would accent it 'Heligo,land instead.

[tronella]

dictionary.com has the IPA for Heligoland as ˈhɛlɪɡəʊˌlænd

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/heligoland)

[lied_ohne_worte]

"Swabian" isn't a German word, at least I've never seen it as one. Rather, it is the English word for either "Schwabe" (a person from Swabia) or the adjective associated with that.

"Casimir" would more likely be written "Kasimir" in German, so my guess is that you might need Danish there.

I cannot really write IPA, only read it somewhat, but you should be able to find at least some of the German expressions with IPA in this dictionary.

[pne]

"Casimir" would more likely be written "Kasimir" in German, so my guess is that you might need Danish there.

Depends on how old the text is?

[lied_ohne_worte]

Well, as the text contains "Wehrmacht", I guessed it was a bit more modern than that. ;-)

[muckefuck]

What the hell, I'll do the German. (Many of these can be found transcribed in Wikipedia, btw.)

Bayrischzell [ˈbaeʁɪʃˌʦɛl]
Biberach [ˈbiːbəʁax]
Duckwitz [ˈdʊkʰvɪʦ]
Flügge [flʏgə]
Frisch [ˈfʁɪʃ]
Gammertingen [ˈgamɐtʰɪŋən]
Gerlach ['geːɐ̯lax]
Göttingen [ˈɡœtʰɪŋən]
Jura [ˈjuːʁa]
Kaufbeuren [ˈkaofbɔʏʁən]
Landau [ˈlandao]
Leipzig [ˈlaepʦɪç]
Memmingen [ˈmɛmɪŋən]
Peierls [ˈpʰaeɐls]
Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse [ˈpʰʁɪnʦˈʔalbɛɐ̯tʰˈʃtʁasə]
Schrödinger [ˈʃʁøːdɪŋɐ]
Wehrmacht [ˈveːɐ̯maxtʰ]
Weizsäcker [ˈvaeʦʔɛkʰɐ]
Württemberg [ˈvʏɐ̯təmˌbɛɐ̯kʰ]

I've made no attempt to represent local pronunciations, instead aiming for a vaguely Dudenish North German broadcaster's pronunciation. There's considerable regional variation in German, even in the formal standard, and many sounds could've equally well been transcribed differently. For instance, a lot of people prefer [aɪ] and [aʊ] to [ae] and [ao] (respectively) and [ʀ] is probably about as common as [ʁ] for /r/ outside of Bavaria and Austria. If you need advice on particular words or sounds, let me know.

[doe_witch]

Thanks for the help; and yeah, I thought I would look on Wikipedia for many of them, but I figured that since I needed some extra assistance for the Danish (Wikipedia seems less helpful there), I might as well get some customized advice like what you have here. I also appreciate people mentioning the sound files on Forvo, but I'm not a strong enough linguist to generate 100% accurate IPA from purely listening. Thanks for this work on the German!