Re: Some natlang questions?

> Date:         Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:03:16 -0500
> From: Justin Mansfield <jdm314@...>
>
> --- In conlang@y..., Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@D...> wrote:
> > To make it perfect, he just needs to put in I\ and U\ in the right
> > spots. (Those aren't in IPA (yet?) so there's an excuse).
>
> Nor are they in X-SAMPA, at least so far as I can tell from
> http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/x-sampa.htm  . What are they?
They are mentioned in the PDF document that is linked at the top of
that page.

I\ is barred small caps I = lax unrounded close central vowel,
U\ is barred upsilon = lax rounded close central vowel.

So I\ goes between 1 and @\, and U\ goes between } and 8.

> It's perfect for IPA > X-SAMPA... not so perfect for the other way
> around, I'm afraid.
There's a list by ASCII symbol which I like to use, at the end of the
same PDF document.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)