Re: Diphthongs in ASCII (was: CHAT letter names etc)

Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:


> Which leaves me now wondering what really is the best way of showing
> diphthongs in ASCII?
Much no-one here seems to be familiar with this system, but several books I've
read writes the weaker part of a diphthong as a superscript. Since ^X denotes
superscript X in JXS, it follows that it can be used for writing diphthongs
too. Eg, your [iw] vs [ju] can be rendered as [i^u] and [^iu] respectively in
JXS. Doesn't look distractingly good, but unlike the glide convention it works
with any vowel sign.


                                                            Andreas