Re: apostrophes in transliteration

* yl112@cornell.edu <yl112@...> [010120 00:00]:
> I'm starting a list of things I've seen apostrophes used for in
> transliteration systems, natlang, conlang or otherwiselang:
>
> 2.  glottal stops
... which was the previous use of apostrophes in my langs.

> 3.  aspiration (it's used this way in McCune-Reischauer with respect to
> Korean)
taruven currently uses the apostrope to mark preaspiration, post-
aspiration, breathy voice and /h/, now whether you consider all that
to be the same thing or entirely separate depends on what phonetic/
phonologic theor(y|ies) you subscribe to. I'm thinking of using {h}
instead tho'... (talk about full circle :) )


t.