>===== Original Message From Constructed Languages List
>> >Not quite. For one thing, Danish doesn't deal in retroflex consonants
>> >at all. Something like [EQn?st].
[snip]
>There really ought to be an IPA diacritic for it ---
>a superscript /?/ maybe, which JCW could then put in X-SAMPA as /_?/
>--- but since there doesn't seem to be a need for it to contrast with
>a real glottal stop, it has to share that IPA symbol.
Isn't the glottal/creaky voice IPA-symbolized by a tilde below the character
in question? (in X-SAMPA it's /_k/ IIRC)
Or is the Danish sound differenter than that?
*Muke!