Re: CHAT: Uralic Phonetic Alphabet

Tim May sikyal:

> Danny Wier writes:
>  > I just read about something called the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet (UPA), which
>  > is one of the forthcoming additions to Unicode (Plane 1). Has anybody heard
>  > of this and who's willing to teach me?
>  >
>  > ~Danny~ "The geek shall inherit the earth."
>
> I know nothing about it, but you can see what the glyphs look like
> here
>  http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2419.pdf
> assuming you haven't done so already.
Ah, these glyphs are beautiful and truly surreal.  Who would ever have
thought of a sideways, diaresized |u|, if not a historical linguist?

This reminds me of the respelling of PIE that someone proposed a few days
ago.  The result, while prettier, was too mundane for my tastes.  I prefer
the strangeness of the k-circumflex and H1, H2, H3 used in traditional PIE
writings--the appropriate hermetic alphabet for glossomancy.


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu

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