Re: OT: pronunciation question

> > [a\] for the mid central vowel is a similar innovation I've also
> > taken into usage.
>
>Is this the same as [@]? Or some other sound?
>
>Cheers,
>--
>Philip Newton
>Mid central vowel?  Not the low central vowel?
>
>Alex
Waagh! Yep, that should read "LOW central vowel". o_ô;;

It's a bit easier than [a_"], but maybe even [6] could suffice in many a
situation...

[Chris Bates:]
>  Z-SAMPA is yet another X-SAMPA variant used by conlangs and almost no-one
>else. :D It's similar to CXS apart from the fact that CXS seems to be the
>conlang list's variant of X-SAMPA, and Z-SAMPA is the variant used on the
>Zompist Bulletin Board and other related boards and websites.
>  I wouldn't worry... both standards seem to agree on pretty much
>everything except the really obscure sounds.
...and it an be found at http://www.kutjara.com/wiki/index.php?title=Z-SAMPA
.
The only actual disagreement with CXS I know of is that our [& &\] are their
[{ &] (as per original X-SAMPA) - but there's also tons of all-new symbols.
Oh, and it seems that I remembered a bit wrong; [e\] is already reserved for
an epiglottal approximant, so the front unrounded middle vowel is
represented as [E\]. Hmh. *I'm* still gonna use [e\] as a vowel.

John Vertical