Christophe Grandsire sekalge:
>It is normally used only with vowels so no ambiguity could arise.
Retracted vowels? I'll have to look into it. What sort of ambiguities?
>In X-SAMPA it is rendered as /_-/. So we could
>have /p_-/ and /b_-/ as labiodental plosives.
Hrm. Why is it _- and not just - ? By my branch of X-SAMPA, the
labiodental plosives are /F\/ and /f\/ (the first is voiced). But your
way makes sense.
>But since it's a conlang, why not simply decide that
>the people who will speak it happen to distinguish them easily? :))
Cheater. All right, you win.
Laimes,
Wright.