Re: Second report on Koni'

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 02:04:38PM +0100, daniel andreasson wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions on Koni'. Especially
> to Teoh. Jessica sends her best regards to you all.
Thanks for your compliment. Though credit really should go to Knuth and
Lamport, who designed TeX and LaTeX so wonderfully.

> Koní is spelt with a "k" these days, due to some changes in the
> orthography. |k| is [k] and |c| has changed to [tS].
>
> I've created a pdf-file so you can view the results so far.
> The link is at http://home.swipnet.se/escape/koniphon.pdf
Very nice. I see that you've chosen to use double acute as a combination
of acute with diaresis. Very nice idea. :-)

> Native Koni' spelling avoids digraphs entirely. However, this
> doesn't work at all in e-mail, so there is an ASCII-transcription
> scheme as well.
Nice. I like it. Now I've gotta find out how to produce barred b and
barred t in LaTeX. :-)

[snip]
> For you who won't check out the pdf-file, I can inform you
> that [}] is written with Greek small omega (just like Ebisedian,
> btw. :)
Aww, I'm flattered. :-) I see that you've even chosen /w/ in the ASCII
transcription, as I have. Do you have any sample Koni' text? I'd love to
transcribe them into LaTeX just to see how it looks.

> Prepalatalization is marked by dieresis, and irregular stress plus
> prepalatalization is marked with double acutes.
Very nice idea.

> If anyone wants to comment on the very odd aspirated labiodental
> voiceless fricative [f_h], you're more than welcome. :)
[snip]

I'm not much of a phonetician, so I really can't comment much on that. I
do notice, though, that aspirated fricatives are quite unusual.


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