Re: mu for [N] (was: Koryak Vowel harmony)

On Friday, January 21, 2005 12:02 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:


> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 11:29:28PM +0100, Henrik Theiling wrote:
>> I think it's still much better than |m| or |ñ|, which both seem
>> misleading.
>
> To each his own, of course, but I find |µ| just as misleading as |m|,
> and much less so than |ñ|.
>
>> Any good suggestion for a voiceless pharyngeal fricative? :-)
> [In ISO-8859-1]
>
> How about |¿|?  It makes more sense for the voiced one than the
> voiceless one, given the IPA, but if you don't have the voiceless one, it
> seems fairly reasonable.  I think |£| and |þ| both bear a slight
> resemblance
> to the IPA barred-h.  Using |¼| is probably too weird, but maybe |×|
> (due to its similarity to |x| or ³ (similar to Arabic 'ayin)) . ..
>
Just for the record, to type in Kajpa I use the following conventions:

|b| = /b/          |nb| = /mb/            |nbq| = /m/
|d| = /d/          |nd| = /nd/            |ndq| = /n/
|g| = /g/          |ng| = /Ng/            |ngq| = /N/
|p| = /p/          |np| = /m_0p/          |npq| = /m_0/
|t| = /t/          |nt| = /n_0t/          |ntq| = /n_0/
|k| = /k/          |nk| = /N_0k/          |nkq| = /N_0/

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