Sweboz Pronounciation?

**mlc82** · 03-13-2007, 19:58

Just wondering if there's a name pronounciation guide out there for the Sweboz? I'm not actually certain how you would pronounce the faction name itself (Looks to me like it would sound like "Sway-boz" but I could be way off), let alone many of the names of the unit types...

**Tiberius Nero** · 03-13-2007, 22:16

I guess you are a native English speaker to ask such a question :P

Each letter has one way of pronouncing it, especially when dealing with written reconstucted languages; wherever you see an "e" its and "e" as in "get", wherever you see an "a" it is as in "cat", an "i" as in "kit", an "o" as in "lot" and an "u" as "oo" in "look". Anywhere you might find them in a word, no matter what precedes or follows, all are pronounced it the same way as I just said. Same goes for Greek Latin and whatnot. In the Sweboz words, if you see a bar above a vowel it means you have to pronounce it long, as if two of them in a row were written.

The "w" in the German words I suppose it is to be pronounced as "v", but then again it is anyone's guess how it was actually pronounced in that timeperiod; originally it must have been pronounced like the English "w", but what "originally" means is anyone's guess as well.

**mlc82** · 03-14-2007, 01:22

Originally Posted by Tiberius Nero

I guess you are a native English speaker to ask such a question :P

Each letter has one way of pronouncing it, especially when dealing with written reconstucted languages; wherever you see an "e" its and "e" as in "get", wherever you see an "a" it is as in "cat", an "i" as in "kit", an "o" as in "lot" and an "u" as "oo" in "look". Anywhere you might find them in a word, no matter what precedes or follows, all are pronounced it the same way as I just said. Same goes for Greek Latin and whatnot. In the Sweboz words, if you see a bar above a vowel it means you have to pronounce it long, as if two of them in a row were written.

The "w" in the German words I suppose it is to be pronounced as "v", but then again it is anyone's guess how it was actually pronounced in that timeperiod; originally it must have been pronounced like the English "w", but what "originally" means is anyone's guess as well.

Yep, native English speaker here ;P And thanks, that pretty much summed up what I needed to know!

**Thaatu** · 03-14-2007, 10:37

Isn't "a" pronounced like in "car". In "cat" it turns into an "ä". Although my only credentials are that I speak finnish which has quite a few similiarities with Proto-Germanic language. The "Háiláz Kuningáz!" bit in the Swêboz description cracks me up every time...

**L.C.Cinna** · 03-14-2007, 11:03

Originally Posted by Thaatu

Isn't "a" pronounced like in "car". In "cat" it turns into an "ä".

yup. that's correct

**Tiberius Nero** · 03-14-2007, 16:16

Damn English vowels :P

The a in "car" is somewhat long, if I hear it correctly, that's why I didn't use it as an example.

Oh and "j" is to be pronounced like "y" in "yes", "yoke" etc, it is not a "j" as in "jazz".

**Tellos Athenaios** · 03-14-2007, 16:34

This topic was raised before. If you feel like reading it: here's the link.

**mlc82** · 03-14-2007, 21:46

Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios

This topic was raised before. If you feel like reading it: here's the link.

Thanks! I ran a search for "Sweboz" and didn't find anything of the sort, never thought to try searching for "pronounce" though...

**seb28** · 03-16-2007, 19:19

Hi,

In Serbo-Croatian the nickname for Germans is Schwabe. I always wondered why they were called like this and I guess that the Sweboz name got slightly changed over the time and survived over 2000 years later.

I know it is not exactly relevant to the thread but I thought it might be interesting.

**Centurio Nixalsverdrus** · 03-18-2007, 22:20

"Schwaben" are a tribe. The people of croatia call the Germans so because that was the first tribe they got to know. The same is for "allemands", "tedesci" (Teutones), "alemanes", even "german" referred originally to a certain tribe.