Yogh (was Re: y sound)
| From: | Tristan <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 18, 2003, 2:52 |
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On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 09:34, Tim May wrote:
> In X-SAMPA, "zh" is [Z]. In the actual IPA its a yogh.
Actually, it's an ezh. A yogh is another of those fun characters used in
English past to represent a /j/ or /G/ sound. Michael Everson wrote a
discussion about them at
<http://www.evertype.com/standards/wynnyogh/index.html> and
<http://www.evertype.com/standards/wynnyogh/ezhyogh.html> (also has a
bit about the history of the IPA). (His site is a very nice resource for
scripts or unicode.)
Tristan (lover of dead characters. Hwair is another good one, though
it's only used for transliterations of Gothic. I may have to fix
that...)
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