Re: CXS (was: Re: NATLANGS: What's that writing system?)
From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
Date: | Saturday, July 8, 2006, 15:34 |
John Vertical wrote:
> Thomas Leigh wrote:
> >The language is Amharic. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to represent
> >ejective, or glottalised, consonants in either IPA or CXS, and neither
> >of those terms appears in Henrik's IPA to CXS chart,
> The diacritic you're looking for is /_>/, and it does appear under the
> title
> "Ejectives" in Henrik's chart; 3rd column in the "Non-pulmonic consonants"
> section just below the main consonant table.
>
> Of course, /_?/ works just fine since it is unused & fairly
> self-explanatory.
Boaz and Sapir, in the early days, used !, e.g. p! t! k! -- I always found
that rather charming.