Re: Boreanesian /3/ (was Re: Paucity of Phonemes...
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 28, 2000, 17:11 |
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Kristian Jensen wrote:
> In both Danish and Boreanesian, its more appropriate to distinguish
> semivowels from approximants -- something the IPA has ceased doing.
I think the righteous way (when you need it) is to represent the
semivowels with the corresponding vowel plus the "non-vocalic" diacritic
(U+032F, COMBINING INVERTED BREVE BELOW). This is often used in
transcribing German "-r" (except "-er"), which becomes non-vocalic "a".
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