CHAT: ASCII IPA transcriptions

On Monday 15 April 2002 20:18, Philip Newton wrote:

> Is that so? Hm. Thanks for the information; I haven't been on the
> list for that long. I just got the impression that a fair number of
> people used X-SAMPA and that it was the _de facto_ standard.
>
> Was it not always so? What did people use before the invasion of the
> Sampists? Or did everyone have their own scheme?
I used (and still use) Kirshenbaum, with one small modification (I have
to write the Ilaini "rh", a semi-aspirated voiceless uvular trill, as a
devoiced uvular R [R<o>] because Kirshenbaum doesn't do voiceless
trills).

Granted, I have only a few "strange" phonemes: this one, and [s<lat>]
(voiceless lateral fricative, "lh", which I and the Valdyans think is a
species of "l" and Kirsh thinks is a species of "s"; I think there's
something to be said for both) and the high central unrounded vowel
[i"] (i-with-a-stroke), "y". All the rest are perfectly straightforward.

   Irina

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