En réponse à Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...>:
> Hi all,
> I have some tables of phonetic symbols ((I hope the columns line up))
> I'm using for my Rubaga description and am wondering if anyone would
> care to provide X-SAMPA equivalents.
>
X-SAMPA equivalents? No problem! The ones I don't give equivalents to are
identical in X-SAMPA to what you gave. And I hope it will still be lining up
with me :)) .
> Consonants:
> | stop fricative nasal trill later. aprx.
> | VL Vd VL Vd Vd VL Vd Vd Vd
> ----------------+------------------------------------------
> bilabial | p b PW m w
p\_w
/w/ is normally a labiovelar approximant. You're sure that what you mean is
purely bilabial? (I ask that because you also have a labiovelar row, where /w/
would fit better)
> labiodental | f v
> labiodent.+pal. | fJ vJ
f_j v_j
Quite simple. Your W is X-SAMPA _w, and your J is X-SAMPA _j :)) .
> apicodental | t d T D n l
> apicodent.+lab. | TW DW
T_w D_w
> alveolar | s z (r)
> retroflex | R
r`
There's nothing like a retroflex trill in IPA (and I can't see how to mark it).
I replaced it here by the tap.
> palatoalveolar | S Z
> palatovelar or
> palatal | c gJ C GJ nJ (lJ) j
J\ j\ J L
> velar | k g x G N
> labiovelar | kW gW xW GW NW (LW)
k_w g_w x_w G_w N_w L\_w
> uvular | X Q
R\_0 R\
I rendered your voiceless uvular trill with the voiced one and the sign for
voicelessness.
> glottal | h
> labioglottal | (hW)
h_w
>
> Also, what's the proper form of the affricates [tS] and [dZ] (the t
> and
> d in these are alveolar).
>
[t_S] and [d_Z] (_ renders the tie bar, but is also used for diacritics in X-
SAMPA).
> Vowels:
> | unrounded rounded
> | front central back
> ---------+---------------------------
> close | i u
> closemid | I U
> mid | e @ o
> openmid | E V O
> open | a
>
[I] and [U] are not close-mid (that's [e] and [o]), they are close lax. The
only mid vowel is the schwa [@]. Also, [a] is not really central but front
(unless you mean [6], which is near open central unrounded, or inverted a in
IPA. You can also centralise [a], but then you have to use the centralise
diacritic - the umlaut - which makes in X-SAMPA [a_"]) and [V], if you mean the
vowel in "but" (inverted v in IPA) is the unrounded equivalent of [O]. Apart
from that, you're using X-SAMPA for the vowels already :)) .
Christophe.
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