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Re: Romanization of Reduced Vowels

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 8, 1998, 0:48
Kristian Jensen wrote:
> > I'm wondering how you guys deal with reduced vowels in Romanized > orthography. I'm not sure how to present them or if I should present > them at all.
Depends, are they phonemic? In W., for instance, [@] is an allophone of /a/, so it's simply written <a>. -- "It has occured to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will." - "Lord Leto II" (Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert) http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files/ ICQ #: 18656696 AOL screen-name: NikTailor