I kinda love it when sf/f writers give characters names that have phonemes or phoneme combinations not really found in English. It's a nice moment of "oh you have imagination for diversity of what language can be."
Trying to figure out the IPA for what I think the sound is without playing the samples is a lot harder :p
Okay I think this name is ɦʃjarə. Maybe. Not sure about that a.
anyway this caught my notice because ɦʃ is a weird sound for english. I'm also not totally sure that's right either.
@starkatt [xɕarə] more strictly speaking, perhaps?
(and considering Thaminga's full name is properly pronounced [ˈtʰamʲiˌŋɐ ˈɢɛsɛmˌɣoq], I'll take that as a compliment 💙)
@Thaminga definitely not x.
@Thaminga anyway that ipa is helpful because I assumed that first consonant in your name was θ!
Also I still haven't gotten the hang of pronouncing ŋ
@starkatt same "ng" in "singer", just with different vowels around it!
