Re: xsampa for vowels and diphthongs

K'tabbe Tristan:

> Isaac Penzev wrote:
> > Ssshnakesssh? I jzzhusst love sshnakessh...
>
> Have you got a pet snake?
Yes, I have. That's my wife :-D

> I've always wanted a pet snake.
To be serious, I'd like to have one, but I don't thnik my housing conditions
permit it. Though a family next door to us (living in a similar flat) does
have a python.

> Maybe the Is would develop dotlessly. But then you have the problem with
> ii and u.
LOL!

> So handwritten Us would like similar to the way I was taught
> handwritten Vs (i.e. exactly the same except that in a u, you go down
> and connect to the next letter from the bottom, whereas in a v, you
> connect it the top). Vs and Us are much more interchangeable, generally.
> Or W could be used for /v/. For /w/, should the phoneme exist, either
> the V/U letter could be used, or we could use the wynn. I prefer the
> latter. Wynn and P would then be somewhat similar, but bilabial stops
> aren't used (much?), so that isn't much of an issue.
Chain reaction.

> (I may've missed something though.)
Yeah, maybe. A couple of months ago, I had an idea to make a conlang for a
sapient serpent tribe, where there's a phonetic inventory consisting
exclusively of hisses...

> Tristan.
Cheers,
Yitzik
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