On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:46:13 -0500, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
>What would be the approximant equivalent of [1] (barred-i)? I'm considering
>M\, though technically that's velar.
>
>The problem arises in my &%*#& Gwr sound changes: some *bdg > BDG,
which
>later > approximants **w,j and __? )-- these form diphthongs with preceding
>V-- Vw, Vj and V@. In modern Gwr phonology, @ is merely an allophone
of /1/
>
>I've been using h\, not quite satisfactory, though in the distinctive
>features I'm using it's possible to contort it into @, it's just not very
>elegant.........:-(((
I don't know what's kosher in IPA. Can you use the centralized diacritic on an
approximant? That would be j_".