Re: Romanized Orthography of My Conlang
| From: | Grandsire, C.A. <grandsir@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 7:33 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Charles wrote:
> > I can't imagine why. It is a FAQ, and a better solution
> > was worked out by cooperative effort a few years ago:
>
> Oh, I agree that SAMPA's not best, but it's what most people are used
> to, and I won't try to use another system (like the CB, my personal
> favorite) that would confuse others so much that I'd end up having to
> explain the whole dang thing every time I want to indicate some IPA.
>
I think SAMPA is good enough as long as your language doesn't have a
too "exotic" phonology (compared to European standards). After all, even
the CB system and SAMPA overlap a lot. It is true that for more "exotic"
phonemes, SAMPA lacks the consistency of some other systems, but it is
still more readable than systems using a lot of signs like ; \ /, etc...
In fact, there is no best solution and it depends on the language
described. For example, SAMPA works very well with Chasma"o"cho, with
the small change in the use of /tS/ and /dZ/ for affricates, not
consonnant clusters, and the disturbing enough use of /2/ for barred-o
and /9/ for oe-ligature.
In fact, the best solution should be to add in the explanation of the
phonology of a language the exact IPA characters to describe the sounds
(images just do fine), with the ASCII transcription used. But of course,
that can work only in webpages, not e-mail...
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