Re: Consonant allophones in Minza
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 4, 2007, 20:27 |
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On 10/4/07, Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> wrote:
> It just strikes me that you can use something similar to the
> system for length and stress marking used in some Swedish
> dictionaries and educational material:
>
> | short unstressed: ö (no subscript)
> | short stressed: ọ̈ (dot below)
> | long stressed: ö̱ (macron below)
The same system is used in my Duden for German.
> The snag is that in Swedish length can occur only combined
> with (primary or secondary) stress.
Same here.
(Except in loanwords, which can have "half-long" vowels - with the
phonetic value of German long rather than short vowels, i.e. [e i o u
y 2] instead of [E I O U Y 9] - in unstressed syllables. If their
phonology departs too much from German, the words get transcribed
wholly or partly in IPA rather than with dots or macrons underneath
the orthography.)
Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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