Re: Marking tones in conlangs

Hallo!

R A Brown writes:

> Like Isaac I have no tonal conlangs of my own (yet), but you may be
> interested in the way James Carter did it for his loglang _gua\spi_
>
> Number	 Sound 	 	Symbols
> 1 	High-even 	- 	-
> 2 	Rising		/ 	/
> 3 	Down-up 	| 	*
> 4 	Falling 	\ 	!
> 5 	Up-down 	^ 	@
> 6 	Low-even 	= 	%
>
>
> Of the two sets of symbols, James says: "The first set of symbols shown,
> ascii characters, is preferred but the second set can substitute on a
> manual typewriter".
>
> The symbols precede the syllable AIUI.
>
> In Mario Pei's "The World's Chief Languages" (1949), he shows Mandarin
> tones in a similar way, using:
> -  first tone (high level)
> /  second tone (rising)
> √  third tone (low dipping) [square root symbol]
> \  fourth tone (falling)
>
> So, for example, "I write" is: /wo √hsie ('ASCII Pinyin' wo2 xie3)
In Macaronesian (a tonal modern descendant of Old Albic, so far poorly
explored), I use the following diacritics:

  a  low tone (no diacritic)
  â  high tone (chevron)
  á  rising tone (acute accent)
  à  falling tone (grave accent)

Greetings,

Jörg.

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