Re: Location ASCII-IPA Table

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:55:05PM -0500, Elliott Lash wrote:
>     I apologize for my very hasty post on this same subject the other day,
> but I was in a rush and forgot myself.
>     Anyway, I was wondering if there was a site with an ASCII-IPA table so
> that I can post a bit of my new language's (as yet unnamed) phonology, and
> perhaps a bit of the grammar as well.
>     Also, in Silindion, there is an odd consonent that sounds a bit like a
> hissed-s, perhaps an apical-s, with the tongue in the same position to say
> apical-t but without touching. Very breathy and wierd. I was wonder if anyone
> had any idea what this sound is, and if there's a symbol for it. I'm sorry i
> can't describe it better, but I haven't heard it in any natlang, and just
> thought it up one night long ago.
Hey, Elliott. I think your sound might be the same as a sound I came up with
somehow. It's not quite [T], not quite [s]. I would write mine as s with a
plus underneath, meaning further forward, or perhaps theta with a minus
underneath.

The ASCII system I prefer is X-SAMPA, which can be found at
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/x-sampa.htm.

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo