How to produce any vowel

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  • čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
  • In this video I present to you a way of producing any vowel. We start with the three "most basic" vowels, introduce the central vowel "e" and glide our way through all the cardinal vowels. Finally I introduce you to the intricate vowel diagram of Luciano Canepari.
    The diagrams I all found on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel
    Luciano Canepari's excellent website:
    canipa.net/

Komentáře • 74

  • @robertmaendeleo4771
    @robertmaendeleo4771 Před 4 lety +14

    Your lessons are really inspiring

  • @pm71241
    @pm71241 Před 6 lety +25

    I like the Calepari vowel diagram. It seems to be more compatible with Danish than the unmodified IPA vowels.
    Danish has its own phonetic alphabet ("Dania") which fits the language, but it's my impression that many IPA vowels need diacritic to be correct. (and some times the difference is really noticeable, especially with the a sounds and the e)
    This diagram seems to more easily capture Danish vowels.

    • @ConlangKrishna
      @ConlangKrishna  Před 6 lety +8

      Yeah, the Canepari system has its advantages, especially for languages with many different vowel qualities (like Danish), and for comparing dialects, that often only differ slightly in their vowel qualities. Unfortunately, Canepari's system does not seem to be used much in the scientific world...

  • @lslane5405
    @lslane5405 Před 7 lety +17

    Nice video! The ɶ sound (number 12) does seem to be really rare, but it occurs in Austrian German, in words such as 'Seil' and 'weil'. A person who speaks with a 'well-educated' Viennese accent (I like to call it 'high Austrian') is unlikely to produce this sound, but people with a strong accent (and often living on the countryside) will produce this. Sources: IPA handbook and living in Austria :)

  • @aprenderfalando4071
    @aprenderfalando4071 Před 3 lety

    Finally I found who explain in the way that I understand. Thank

  • @wangsiyue3794
    @wangsiyue3794 Před 6 lety +2

    OMG!!! Thank you sooooo much for explaining vowel production!!! I've always had a hard time differentiating and producing these sounds!!!!

  • @lawrenceleung1650
    @lawrenceleung1650 Před 5 lety +2

    Congratulations to Krishna for your excellent and admirable work!

  • @johannesh7610
    @johannesh7610 Před 6 lety +5

    Very good summary and you pronounce them all! Helped my a lot (we try to create a new language and are looking for vowels as a first step). I'm glad to have found those tables (especially the last one lists interestingly many vowels)
    Thanks!

  • @espositogregory
    @espositogregory Před 3 lety +2

    While making a script for s conlang, I tourd with a system which acted as though “vowel” was a single letter which possessed slight non-diacritical changes to describe the manners/places of articulation progression.

  • @katemctaggart5085
    @katemctaggart5085 Před 4 lety +5

    These videos are great, thank you so much! I feel like you will get me through the ear training part of my Speech Therapy training :)

  • @mauroncard
    @mauroncard Před 4 lety +2

    What an awesome job! Congrats!

  • @ellyeyeimo4383
    @ellyeyeimo4383 Před rokem

    Thank you very helpful

  • @Darihmaster
    @Darihmaster Před 6 lety +3

    Wow. I subscribed, Thank you very very much!! This videos is really good and I like that you pronounced each sound, it really helped me!

  • @henriquequintana2143
    @henriquequintana2143 Před 3 lety +3

    Ótimo!!!!!

  • @mahdehassan9702
    @mahdehassan9702 Před 5 lety +2

    Fantastic sir

  • @fcp536
    @fcp536 Před 4 lety +1

    Very interesting video! Bravo

  • @leelomchen3119
    @leelomchen3119 Před 3 lety +1

    fantastic

  • @sajans8149
    @sajans8149 Před 6 lety +2

    wonderful

  • @glossy-jimin
    @glossy-jimin Před 3 lety

    Thank you. I'm an aspiring language learner but I have some difficulty distinguishing between sounds. This opened up my eyes a little 👍

  • @user-bf6vg3tm5o
    @user-bf6vg3tm5o Před 5 lety +1

    Good video, thank you! Help me a lot.I really hope more examples of each vowel.As a foreigner I can hardly recognize the different between them.

  • @koveek
    @koveek Před 3 lety +1

    I just found your channel! But it seems that you haven't uploaded anything since the last year. :/ You make very interesting content, which I was looking for, for a really long time. I hope you'll come back :^)

  • @MrMirville
    @MrMirville Před rokem +1

    The Πsound is frequent in the French of Quebec.

  • @FannomacritaireSuomi
    @FannomacritaireSuomi Před 3 lety +1

    Playing with phonetics sounds messy but it's interesting as hell! I study phonetics at the university and totally love it

    • @ConlangKrishna
      @ConlangKrishna  Před 3 lety +1

      And Eurovision can be a great source of examples of rare languages!

  • @TheZenytram
    @TheZenytram Před 3 lety +2

    WHY IPA dont use the last chart. it makes a whole lot more sense than that skewed mess they use.

    • @ulfr-gunnarsson
      @ulfr-gunnarsson Před 3 lety

      First, because Canepari's system is not very compatible with computers (there are many characters that are not present in any Unicode sets);
      Second, there are enough diacritics in the official IPA to describe vowels closely enough, so Canepari is basically reinventing the wheel with all his weird symbols.
      Plus, IPA is actually just a system to write pronounciation independent from orthography of a given language (if it has one).

  • @Pat-Van-Canada
    @Pat-Van-Canada Před 2 lety +1

    like colours on the colour wheel !

  • @skeptic781
    @skeptic781 Před 4 lety +2

    7:23 some speakers of swedish use that instead of the one above which I personally tend to use. I don't find it weird though

  • @funkchi
    @funkchi Před 6 lety +5

    Ha, Chinese and Korean have that central vowel 17. I don't know if it's a common vowel, but not many Non-Chinese or Non-Korean speaker could get it right.

    • @ConlangKrishna
      @ConlangKrishna  Před 6 lety

      Bird Aqua True, it is quite rare, but also appears in some Slavic languages like Russian or Polish. Some languages use a vowel between 16 and 17, like Turkish.

    • @jellosapiens7261
      @jellosapiens7261 Před 6 lety +1

      Yeah, the Korean 으 is often realized somewhere between 16 and 17. It's sometimes transcribed with the ipa character ɯ̽ to show that it's between the two, but to my ears it definitely feels higher than ɯ̽.

    • @altf4218
      @altf4218 Před 5 lety +1

      The Romanian lettter â has a similar pronunciaton.

    • @quantumsoul3495
      @quantumsoul3495 Před 5 lety

      @@altf4218 and î

  • @ngochongnguyen3379
    @ngochongnguyen3379 Před 5 lety +3

    😍😍😍😍😍

  • @pm71241
    @pm71241 Před 6 lety +3

    And 12 occurs often in Danish. Like in "smør" - /ˈsmɶɐ̯/ , butter.

  • @asifanowar423
    @asifanowar423 Před 6 lety +2

    Thank you for such a nice video..I have a question .. that is how can I know whether I'm pronouncing the IPA vowels correctly?? And how do I know that how much do I need to open or close , spread or round my lips a particular vowel sound??

    • @nanalang7665
      @nanalang7665 Před 6 lety +4

      Asif Anowar i beleive there is a tool called “praat” that can listen to your voice and tell you what vowel you’re making... i’m not sure how hard it is to use though (i’ve never used it myself). Might be worth a try

    • @damienliles5387
      @damienliles5387 Před 4 lety +1

      @@nanalang7665 I checked into your tip. Turns out Praat is an audio transcription tool where the user can easily write in where each sound starts and ends. It actually doesn't do the transcription / sound analysis for you. Instead, you could check out this "IPA Chart with Sounds" page. www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/ipa-sounds/ipa-chart-with-sounds/

  • @CrazyLeiFeng
    @CrazyLeiFeng Před 4 lety +2

    Are the vowels from the Capenari diagram mapped against English words in RP or GA in any book or website?

    • @ConlangKrishna
      @ConlangKrishna  Před 4 lety

      I am pretty sure, Canepari has compared different dialects of English. You can find lots of free material in his webpage:
      www.canipa.net

    • @CrazyLeiFeng
      @CrazyLeiFeng Před 4 lety

      @@ConlangKrishna Thx

  • @ramzy-6566
    @ramzy-6566 Před rokem

    we hope more video, you can update some.

  • @user-sp4if8vc8t
    @user-sp4if8vc8t Před 6 lety +2

    Where can İ find out the Lower-Mid with Back-Central vowel sound?
    Note: See on 8:04

    • @ConlangKrishna
      @ConlangKrishna  Před 6 lety

      I did not add that sound, because it is very difficult to tell apart from its neighboring sounds. A non-rounded LMBC vowel would probably be perceived as an [ǝ]. A rounded LMBC vowel sounds almost the same as an [ɔ].
      I do not know of a language that has one specific LMBC phoneme.

    • @user-sp4if8vc8t
      @user-sp4if8vc8t Před 6 lety

      OK! thank u.

    • @Drazzz27
      @Drazzz27 Před 5 lety

      Lower Mid Back Central (in CanIPA) can be found in Romanian. It is designated by the letter "ă" (in stressed position, unstressed "ă" may sound more centralized, like /ə/) . You can listen to an example word "ăsta" on forvo: forvo.com/word/ăsta/#ro
      or cărți: forvo.com/word/cărți
      The rounded version of this sound could be found in French 'bonnet' in neutral accent (according to Canepari's criteria), but it can be pronounced differently in mediatic Parisian and other accents, so I'm personally not sure if I would be able to actually recognize it and not confuse it with other sound on the recording. The one on forvo sounds about right.
      You can also listen to the name of the Igbo language in Igbo, it should have the same sound:
      forvo.com/word/igbo/

  • @dailyfrench
    @dailyfrench Před 2 lety

    3:01 sounds of the vowels

  • @atadcy4882
    @atadcy4882 Před 4 lety +4

    Omg it all sounds the same 🤯

    • @ConlangKrishna
      @ConlangKrishna  Před 4 lety +4

      True, many vowels are very close to eachother. And no language has them all. Practice, practice, practice. 😉

  • @slottraducoesbr2929
    @slottraducoesbr2929 Před 4 lety +2

    /æ/ is very hard. (My native language is portuguese Brazil)

    • @skeptic781
      @skeptic781 Před 4 lety +3

      It's hard for me and English is my native language. My Northern Irish accent uses the a vowel Instead

  • @louiserocks1
    @louiserocks1 Před 6 lety +4

    The oe (joined together) to me sounds exactly the same as the vowel in bird, hurt

    • @ConlangKrishna
      @ConlangKrishna  Před 6 lety +4

      Theoretically, the vowel in "bird" is [ɜ], so it is less rounded and more central than [œ], so for [œ] the lips are rounded, for [ɜ] they are not.
      If you ask me, the difference is not a big one, especially in fast speech. ;-)

    • @ulfr-gunnarsson
      @ulfr-gunnarsson Před 3 lety

      @@ConlangKrishna Actually, (according to known British linguist and phonetician Geoff Lindsey) there is an /əː/ sound in words like bird, nurse etc. in modern British English, not /ɜ/.
      Plus, some broad Australian and New Zealand accents (and even few British accents) actually do pronounce /œː/ or /øː/ in place of /ɜː/ or /əː/.

  • @pkREX24
    @pkREX24 Před 3 lety +1

    I don't really get how the tongue positioning works. Is it referring to the tip? the whole thing? what?

    • @ConlangKrishna
      @ConlangKrishna  Před 3 lety

      With vowels, it is the whole tongue that moves. This usually happens unconsciously. Here is a link to the Encyclopedia Britannica article that shows different tongue positions. You can pronounce these words and try to feel the position of your tongue while doing this:
      "Phonetics - Suprasegmentals | Britannica" www.britannica.com/science/phonetics/Suprasegmentals

  • @tomkot
    @tomkot Před 4 lety +1

    ɶ is actually not so weird, it occurs in Swedish words like öra en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_front_rounded_vowel

    • @the_biblioklept2533
      @the_biblioklept2533 Před 4 lety

      Tom Kot It is weird. It's only in 3 languages

    • @ulfr-gunnarsson
      @ulfr-gunnarsson Před 3 lety

      @Tom Kot I guess, he meant that [ɶ] is quite rare as a phoneme.
      In case of Swedish (and Norwegian) [ɶ] is an allophone of /œ/ before /r/.

  • @jpzhang8290
    @jpzhang8290 Před 2 lety

    Wonder if these vowels are pronounced differently in concrete languages, say English or French?

  • @nguyennhuoclam105
    @nguyennhuoclam105 Před 11 měsíci

    Hướng dẫn chơi đi

  • @lizardstank
    @lizardstank Před 3 lety +1

    2:50
    Do you know dah way

  • @grumpino8246
    @grumpino8246 Před 4 lety +5

    the pronunciation of [e] is wrong, i think.

    • @yodamaster445
      @yodamaster445 Před 3 lety +1

      @Danilo Croce Italian e is [e̞], german e is [e]

    • @ulfr-gunnarsson
      @ulfr-gunnarsson Před 3 lety

      @@yodamaster445 Actually, German /e/ is a bit hiɡher, than a cardinal /e/, so it's more like [e̝] (i.e. it's closer to /i/).

  • @gide5489
    @gide5489 Před měsícem

    Nasal sounds?

  • @benjaminhamm7530
    @benjaminhamm7530 Před rokem

    algo

  • @ramamonato5039
    @ramamonato5039 Před rokem

    /ˈdænɪəl ˈdʒəʊnz wəz ə ˈbrɪtɪʃ fəʊnɪˈtɪʃn. aɪ ˈlaɪk ɪm./