Re: Romanized Orthography of My Conlang

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From: Grandsire, C.A. <grandsir@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 2:33 AM
Subject: Re: Romanized Orthography of My Conlang


> Nik Taylor wrote:
> > 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.
Of course the BEST system is X-SAMPA ;)
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/x-sampa.htm

> 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.
The X-SAMPA standard (and I believe SAMPA as well) specify that /tS/ and
/dZ/ are perfectly fine for the affricates, unless you need to be *very*
specific about their being affricates and not clusters; it shouldn't be a
problem unless Chasma"o"cho has them as phonemically distinct clusters. In
that case, though, the X-SAMPA transcriptions for the affricates are /t_S/
and /d_Z/.

Also, did you notice that /2/ is the vowel used in <deux> (French 'two' for
the non-Francophones), and /9/ is the vowel used in <neuf> (nine)? :)