Re: USAGE: (Mis)Naming a Language

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 11:02:14PM -0000, caeruleancentaur wrote:
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> I must not be understanding the IPA-xsampa chart.  It looks to me
> like /&/ represents a rounded vowel, the IPA being the digraph OE.  I
> can't imagine anyone pronouncing the "a" in ladder/latter/Latin with
> a rounded vowel.  That's why I used the symbol /{/ which I understand
> to represent the flat "a" as in the English word "pat."
I think this is just a confusion between X-SAMPA proper and CXS, which
is CONLANG's modified version of X-SAMPA. My conlang resources page
has a chart for both, which you may compare:

	http://conlang.eusebeia.dyndns.org/

One of the notable differences in CXS is the use of [&] for the a-e
ligature instead of [{]. I believe most people on this list use CXS
when transcribing IPA, but once in a while some confusion arises
because it's not specified which system is being used.


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