| From: | D Tse <exponent@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 5, 2001, 1:53 |
<< << I usually use the symbol [3] for `ayn... i've seen it in a few
Arabic
transliteration systems and its a simple one-character generally rare
symbol for ASCII IPA. >>
And it looks just like it! (The Arabic letter, that is.) Thanks!
-Dave >>
Truncated (by me) excerpt from the Phonetic Symbol Guide:
"Proposed but not officially approved for voiced pharyngeal fricative
(standard IPA /?\/)
Comments: The character ... is visually suggestive of Arabic
character for the Arabic character for the sound <3> 'ain."
Wait a moment...
The book says it's a pharyngeal fricative...isn't what you described
earlier (choking sound, etc) the epiglottal stop?
Imperative