Translingual Shiritori, Phonetic Edition

I don’t know any word that begins with ‘olk’, so I wil use last 4 sounds

folklore
(English)

(’ r ’ sound at the end mystery incoming …)

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How about this: lørdag ‘Saturday’, Danish, because the Danish vocalize their preconsonantal r’s too.

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How do you pronounce that? Is it an ‘ag’ sound at the end or an ‘ax’/‘ach’ sound?
(I just know that Danish pronounciation is really… weird. :flushed: )

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I had to look up, frankly. Wiktionary gives [ˈlɶɐ̯d̥a]. The lör- is pronounced like in Noazan Dschöamenie, the d is devoiced like in Swiss German or Mandarin, the g apparently silent.

Honestly, I feared worse…

Well, it’s not really starting with the same sounds that “folkore” ended on.

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Ha, interesting. Thanks for finding out.

dalszy / dalshy / further
Polish
The y sounds like something between a Russian ‘ы’ and a German “ending” ‘e’ like in ‘Lampe’, but I don’t mind if you start the next word with a ‘shi’ sound. :wink:

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looks very similar to Russian “дальше” (means “further” too)
I opened pronunciation of дальше in google translate and en.wiktionary.org and both were wrong, they pronounce ending like i (い / ы) instead of e (え / э)

its hard to find Polish words on youtube, so I can’t be sure how it really pronounce

this I understand at least, so my next word is

шина - Russian noun, meaning:

English romanisation /shina/
Japanese transcription /シナ/

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gnat - english /nat/

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אתבש /atbaʃ/
Z svyivd vxibkgrmt nvgslw.

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Did you type without checking what you wrote? :grin:

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well, find out what an atbash is and you’ll know. :smirk:

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Hm, it was not in my textbook…

But on Wikipedia! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atbash :slightly_smiling_face: And now I can read it.

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आश्रम / ashrama / Sanskrit: a spiritual hermitage or monastery

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mat / english

atari

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Risiko / 'gheeseeko :wink: / German: risk

кошка /koshka/ - Russian, meaning:
cat

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catamarano / katamara:no/ italian: catamaran

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