Re: Newbie...intro to my conlang

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:46:19 -0500, Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> wrote:

>In fact, it is a greek beta and doesn't look much like es-zet :) (if using
>Unicode to write the IPA on a computer, you have to use the beta from the
>Greek section, even though there is an IPA section in Unicode). And yes,
>it is a bilabial fricative, and yes, I do believe it exists in Spanish (as
>an allophone for Spanish /b/ or, debatably, as the phoneme /B/ which has
>an allophone /b/). So I think that's a yes to your last one too :)
It looks to me like the es-zet, but then I'm using the SIL IPA Manuscript
file...anyway, we're on the same side.  Cool.  I've used it in my conlang
rather extensively, and it's taken me a good month of practice to get myself
able to say it without duress.  I'll have to upload the conlang soon so
y'all get a chance to look at it.

Beau

"I'm going to grow up to become a professional stunt linguist!"

(extrapolation from a statement in a Terry Pratchett Discworld Novel)

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