Re: USAGE: Yet another few questions about Welsh.

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> At 11:37 7/4/2004, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> >The [u]>[u\] change also occured in Scandinavia. The presence of /i/ and
> /y/
> >was, however, apparently enough to stop it simply drifting further forward,
> so
> >[u\] either remained (as in my 'lect) or mutated into [2_w] (as in BP's
> >'lect).
>
> All of Norway also preserves [u\].
>
> BTW Andreas, do you keep a shart of your ASCII-IPA anywhere?
> IIRC we decided to introduce [8\] for [2_w], and also cleaned
> up/expanded the inventory of rhotics and retroflexes.

I just uploaded an .txt to http://andjo.free.fr/conlang/asciiipa.txt .

The version described therein still uses postpositioned backslashes as the
"general diacritic". When I last worked on it, I was going to replaced them with
prepositioned asterisks instead (stolen from CPA).

                                                      Andreas

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