Re: Representing tones in X-Sampa; Khmer phonemes (for Tim May)

Quoting Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>:

> On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Trebor Jung wrote:
>
> > Merhaba!
> >
> > How do you represent high, low, rising, falling etc. tones in X-Sampa?
>
> Extra high      _T
> High            _H
> Mid             _M
> Low             _L
> Extra Low       _B
>
> Rising          _R
> Falling         _F
> High-rising     _H_T
> Low rising      _B_L
> Rising falling  _R_F
>
> These can of course be combined, so you might have low-rising-falling as
> _L_R_F.
For a specific language, you're also allowed to use the traditional numbering
of tones, and supply the number as an X-SAMPA diacritic. Eg, Chinese [ma_1]
for the first tone. Not that this is potentially ambiguous, since [a_1] could
also be a diphthong. That partic'lar problem goes away in CXS, but rears its
head again in the second tone - [a_2].

ObTangent: Anyone know of a lang using either of the diphthongs [ai\] and
[a2]? An ancient naming language of mine did have [ay].

                                                           Andreas

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