User:Yahya Abdal-Aziz/sandbox

This is a sandbox page for user Yahya Abdal-Aziz. Here I will experiment to test out proposed changes without messing up the main space.

• yoyo (talk) 19:46, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

Note that this uses a template from Wiktionary, not Wikipedia! And as a result, while it works here, it doesn't work on Wikipedia.

This template automatically generates pronunciation for Russian words …

Most of the time you can just use the regular spelling of the word, with appropriate accent marks, as follows:

1. Use an acute accent (′) for primary stress.
2. Use a grave accent (`) for secondary stress.
3. Use a circumflex accent (^) for "tertiary stress", i.e. an unstressed syllable where the vowel isn't reduced when it normally would be.

The following texts need transliteration and IPA:

1. Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens
2. Polovtsian Dance with Chorus
3. Gliding Dance of the Maidens
4. Wild Dance of the Men
5. General Dance
6. Dance of the Boys
7. 2nd Dance of the Men

Try first to use the template without adding accents:

The column headed "Russian" calls the template {{m|ru|пля́ска …}}, for instance, which outputs the given Russian text as a Wiktionary page name in Cyrillic (usually a redlink), together with a parenthesised and italicised direct transliteration. Whereas the "Template call" {{ru-IPA|пля́ска …}} outputs the IPA transcription only, e.g. IPA^(key): .

So far, so good. Now I need to uncover the pronunciation of these Russian words & phrases (using Wiktionary, of course). Then I should be able to generate both acceptable transliterations (making due allowance for the romanization rules for Russian, such as use of /y/ rather than /j/ for Anglophones) and reasonable approximations to the Russian pronunciations using the IPA, with all the vowel reductions and assimilations that template applies.

• yoyo (talk) 14:15, 19 May 2019 (UTC)