CHAT: Problems with Romanization (was: CHAT: Spanish "egnnyie")
| From: | Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 15, 1999, 8:51 |
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Carlos Thompson wrote:
>B.Philip skrev:
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>> One cool alternative I've seen is to use only ~ (ASCII char 126)
>> as in "se~ora"!
>
>The one I've personally like the most is using <#>, I've found it
>more readable than any other, but ther alternatives I've seen:
>upercase <N> (like uppercase vowels for explicit stress (acute)),
>the diagraphs above: <nn>, <ny>, <gn>, <ni> the tilde alone <~>,
>the <#>, and the diacritic convention: <n~> or <~n>. ... well, and
>the <n> alone, also.
>
><test>
> Saludes a la sennora y a los ninnos!
> Saludes a la senyora y a los ninnos!
> Saludes a la seniora y a los ninios!
> Saludes a la segnora y a los nignos!
> Saludes a la seNora y a los niNos!
> Saludes a la se~ora y a los ni~os!
> Saludes a la se#ora y a los ni#os!
> Saludes a la sen~ora y a los nin~os!
> Saludes a la se~nora y a los ni~nos!
> Saludes a la senora y a los ninos!
> Saludes a la señora y a los niños!
></test>
>
>
>Well. I prefere <#>, nut it's just taste.
>
>Making this a little conlang related, anybody has had similar
>problems with their romanizations? I guess that's why Chleweyish
>is plain ASCII-7 plus some acuted vowels for irregular stress.
Oh do I have problems!! I'm never content with any of the
romanization schemes I come up with for Boreanesian. In the grammar
I'm writing in MSWord, I have transcribe the language entirely with
the IPA. This causes problems when I try to give samples of the
language through email. I have to resort to various ASCII-IPA
schemes (some personalized) depending on what sounds are present in
the samples I post.
The sounds that give problems are; the lateral fricative, the lamino
denti-alveolar stop, the lamino denti-alveolar nasal, the velar
nasal, the schwa, and worst of all, the velar approximant with
creaky or glottal stop allophones. The various schemes I have used
(or considered using) so far on email are sampled below:
lateral fricative: <lh> <L>
lamino denti-alveolar stop: <th> <tj> <c> <T> <t[>
lamino denti-alveolar nasal: <nh> <nj> <n(tilde)> <N> <n[>
velar nasal: <N> <ng> <g>
schwa: <@> <e>
velar approximant: <3> <G> <g> <@> <:> <?> <q> <Q>
What a mess!!!
-kristian- 8)