Re: Bilabial Lateral Fricative

On 10 Nov, Andrew Patterson wrote:

>I tried the sound, and it's certainly doable.
>
> I thought I'd knock up a possible symbol in paint - it's an amalgam of the
> symbol for the voiced bilabial fricative and the belt from they symbol for
> the voiceless alveolar fricative. You didn't say if your sound is voiced
> or unvoiced.
I think that I was only referring to the unvoiced fricative. But it, like
most (all?) fricatives can also be voiced.



 Anyway, I've put the symbol on the web at:
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> http://www.geocities.com/endipatterson/BilateralBilabialFricative.GIF
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> I hope you like it.
I do! I also like the esthetics of it --- how the thickness of the lines
varies with the main right or left direction of writing.
Your symbol seems based upon IPA.
I wonder, though, how CXS might be extended so as to represent this sound.

> I've been doing a bit of symbol designing actually, I did an alternative
> English alphabet. Probably not the right place to show it, but what the
> heck.
>
> http://www.geocities.com/endipatterson/alphadozen.html
>
> Maybe you can use some of the symbols or adapt them.
Interesting. But why did my browser (good ol' IE) insist that I'd
need to download a _Chinese_ font before I could see the page?!!
(I didn't download any font, and the page still came through
crystal clear, with all the symbols intact!)

Dan Sulani
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