Re: Tit'xka (Pretty Long Post)

Sheets, Jeff wrote:
> Well, I had thought it represented German ch!  It is an aspirated k.  I'm
> using the Kirshenbaum(sp?) ASCII IPA.  th in thin is /T/ th in these is /D/
> sh in shin is /S/ and I had thought that ch in bach was /K/.  Perhaps you
> are using a different transcription system?  maybe SAMPA?
Ah!  Yes, I use SAMPA.  In SAMPA, aspirated k is /k_h/, the underscore
indicates superscripts.  In that case, _k_ in "kill" is an example.  If
you intended it to be identical to German _ch_ of Bach, then /x/
would've been the symbol in SAMPA, and, I think, Kirshenbaum.