Re: A Proposed Latin-1 vowel notation

BP Jonsson wrote:

>        FRONT   CENTR   BACK
>        -R  +R  -R  +R  -R  +R
>HIGH    i   y   ï   ü   û   u
>MIDHI   e   ø   î       õ   o
>MIDLOW  ë   ö   ê   ô   ã   å
>LOW     æ       ä       a   â
>
>It is assumed e.g. that ï ü can be used also for the vowels in English KIT
>and FOOT respectively.
>
>NB I'm not all happy with the unsystematic use of ^, but signs with ^ are
>generallly more back and/or lower.  Perhaps ë and ê should swap places?
That's what I thought too. In fact, ë is used in the Americanist
transcriptions for a MIDHI BACK vowel. So the the deirisis (¨) could
represent "more front" if a back symbol is used, or "more back" if a
front symbol is used -- in other words, centralize.

-kristian- 8)