From: "jesse stephen bangs" <jaspax@...>
> Muke Tever sikayal:
>
> > Anyway, it's for a kind of people called daimyo[1] (natively: /4Àmjó/).
> > Orthographizing this should be horribly difficult so I'll be using
X-SAMPA
> > here for this posting (and actual IPA images when it goes to my website
> > later). BTW 'll be using acute and grave (or and -, for what can't
take
> > them) for high and low pitch/tone/whatever respectively, because it's
even
> > impossibler to read with all those _H and _R and _F and _L tags floating
> > around.
>
> I'd love to see more of this. I thought the phonology was beautiful, and
> a sample text would be great to look at.
I'll still have a little work to do before I get to the texts-producing
stage, but thanks :)
> > Semivowels
> > 5 w j 3\`_^
> > (that last one is probably a very bad analysis of the sound..it's like
"wr")
>
> What's [5]?
[5] is probably the wrong sign. It's supposed to be like barred-l or
unrounded /w/.
> And is that last cluster of symbols one sound or two? If
> it's like 'wr' I'd call it a labio-retroflex approximant, which has no
> symbol, but could be written with the synbol of the retroflex approximant
> with the rounding diacritic.
Yeah, the last is one sound. I'll have to find a more convenient symbol.
(On the webpage now I just have the retroflex approximant sign.)
> > Um, that's basically it for now. Feedback? Any bits actually
impossible?
>
> I liked it, though I wish I could see it in real IPA since I got lost in
> the middle of all of those bizarre SAMPA symbols.
Well, I just updated my webpage, and there's a bit on it here:
http://personal.southern.edu/~alrivera//daimyo.shtml
*Muke!
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