Re: CPA - An ASCII-based phonetic alphabet

--- In conlang@y..., Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg.rhiemeier@N...> wrote:
> Christian Thalmann <cinga@G...> made the following suggestion:
>
> > 1) Use the asterisk for impl and ejec stops rather than the [`].
>
> The problem with this is that the asterisk is already used as a
> prefixed modifier character and thus cannot be used as a suffixed
> diacritic.  With your suggestions, sequences like [k*i] would be
> ambiguous: is it a glottalized [k], or a centralized [i]?
Actually, my thought was to use [*] as a prefixed modifier for impl and
ejec stops.  Sorry for being unclear.

My first impulse was to use ["] for impls and ejecs, but unfortunately
there was one character already blocked: ["c], which you used for
Polnish curly-ended c.  However, the [*] versions of all the necessary
stops are unused so far, so it would work with no further rearrangements.


-- Christian Thalmann