Teuthonista

Teuthonista is a phonetic transcription system used predominantly for the transcription of (High) German dialects. The base characters are mostly based on the Latin alphabet, which can be modified by various diacritics.

History

The name Teuthonista goes back to the Journal Teuthonista, in which the transcription system was presented in 1924/25.

Symbols

Most of the characters derive from the Latin or Greek alphabet. Especially the consonants are primarily monotype symbols, i.e. "one character for one sound". Special nuances in articulation can be distinguished by diacritics (e.g. dots or tildes beneath or across the character).

In writing vowels Teuthonista uses much more diacritics than letter symbols. So as to describe the various sounds of an "e" or an "i" there can be used dots, double-dots, upstrokes, tildes, ogoneks, and so on in any combination. It is possible to write more than 500 different "e"s.

This kind of writing is very efficient. For this reason the transcription system is the first choice of scientific researchers in Germany, who use direct questionnaires to gather data for dialectological investigation.

Usage

The Teuthonista phonetic transcription system is used by the following projects:

Lexicons

Linguistic atlases

Further reading

External links

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