Languages and Pronunciation

• Books on language pronunciation
• Basic Diction principles
• The Diction Domain (portal for language resources)
• Diction for Choirs
• English
  • Handling Elision in English
  • Most common English diction problems
  • How to pronounce Fortune
  • The Great Vowel Shift (medieval English pronunciation)
  • Pronouncing Jesu in English
  • Is there a difference between O and Oh?
• Sung French from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
• Choral music in Hebrew
• Hungarian
  • Hungarian Pronunciation Chart (PDF)
  • Introduction to the Hungarian Language
• International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
  • Curriculum for teaching
  • FAQ: Representing IPA Phonetics in ASCII
  • International Phonetic Association
  • IPA fonts
  • IPANow! - Software for producing IPA transcriptions
  • IPA Font: IPAPhon
  • IPASource.com (IPA Transcriptions and Word-for-Word Translations of Songs and Arias)
  • SIL Encore IPA Fonts
  • The Sounds of Standard American English
• Latin
  • Standard Latin pronunciation according to Roman usage
  • Ecclesiastical Latin Pronunciation Guide
  • Guide to the Pronunciation of Ecclesiastical Latin
  • Who decides correct Latin Pronunciation?
  • S or Z between two vowels?
• Online Latin Pronunciation Sound Files
  • Magnificat
  • Ordinary of the Mass
  • Requiem Mass
  • Stabat Mater
  • Te Deum
• Singing in Original Languages: pros, cons
• Russian pronunciation
• Slovak Alphabet and Pronunciation
• How to pronounce LL in Renaissance Spanish
• Swedish pronunciation guide
• Translation resources