Re: Transcribing Ebisedian (was Re: Introducing Paul Burgess etc.)

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:34:25AM +0200, Isaac Penzev wrote:
> Ktabbe H. S. Teoh:
>
> > In fact, I much prefer that orthography than in the ASCII orthography
> > which I use here only by necessity. The ASCII orthography is unconsciably
> > ugly, as Jesse Bangs puts it, and is probably responsible for a large part
> > of Ebisedian's freaklang reputation.
>
> Oh, no! I find your ASCII transliteration very consistent and nice
> looking!  I've got used to see it in your mails, thus it was quite a
> shock to see smth entirely different in the tutorial :-)
Well, it may be consistent, but I don't find it nice-looking at all! :-)

> Can you also explain double phonetic value of some vowels (like _w_, _3_
> etc.)?
[snip]

I assume you're referring to the alternative IPA symbols I gave for the
vowels? These indicate allophones for that particular vowel phoneme.
There are actually more allophones which I haven't updated in the
consonant table yet. (See my recent post on "laminated affricates", :-P
for example.)


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