Re: USAGE: Finnish and English vowels (was: Adapting non-Latin scripts)

Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:
>> I have overengineering tricks for consonants up my sleeve, too; how would
>> analyzing [hAmp:u] as /hAn?pu/ sound? :D
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> Well I think they do that for Japanese already...
The common analysis posits an unspecified phoneme, /Q/.  [?] is,
arguably, an allophone of it, and sometimes considered to be the
"default" allophone, since it occurs word-finally (or at least, the same
kana is used to denote word final /?/ in interjections)