Re: Yet another ASCII-IPA scheme...

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 00:54:11 +0100, Jörg Rhiemeier
<joerg.rhiemeier@...> wrote:

>(The palatal and velar laterals in the IPA chart are really
>palatal_ized_ and velar_ized_ ones, if you ask me, and are thus
>rendered [l_j] and [l_G], respectively.)
One of my old languages, Devérrin, has an actual velar (not velarized)
lateral. Since I didn't have an IPA symbol for it (this was before the
small-capital-L started showing up on the IPA charts), I used the pound
sign {£}, which at least looks like some variety of {L}. It doesn't
contrast phonemically with a velarized "l", but it doesn't sound like one
either (more like a cross between "l" and the American "r" sound; I think I
actually used "lr" as a romanized spelling).

>Vowels   Front     Central    Back
>
>Close    i  y       *i *u    "i  u
>              I  Y          U
>Close-mid   e "o     *e *o   "e  o
>                        @
>Open-mid       E "O   *E *O  "E  O
>                &       *a
>Open              a "a        A *A
This use of the " mark with the vowels reminds me of the American phonetic
tradition of using umlauts on the vowels to switch them between front and
back (for instance, using {ï} for the turned-m high unrounded back vowel).
I have no idea whether they still teach this, but at least it has a
historical precedent. You could also use ["u] for IPA [y]. Two things that
doesn't quite fit are ["a] for the rounded equivalent of [a], and [*A] for
a non-central vowel. If you use B. Philip Jonsson's suggestion of [6] for
the low back rounded vowel (which I adopted for later versions of KPA), you
could then have ["6] for the small capital OE ligature.

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