Re: THEORY: Re : THEORY: Semivowels

Quoth Herman (in response to me):

>On Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:12:18 PDT, Danny Wier <dawier@...> wrote:
>
> >Oh and by the way, I think the SAMPA symbol for the semivocalic French
> >u/German u-umlaut is h\ (h-backslash).  At least assuming that the
>backslash
> >most often indicates an inverted letter.
>
>[r\] happens to be the SAMPA for the turned r, but other than that I can't
>find any that use \ for inverted or rotated letters. The SAMPA symbol for
>the turned h is [H]. In my KPA notation I use [y"] for this sound (which
>occurs in Kirezagi and a few other of my languages).
Hey I like that!  I use y-umlaut to transliterate the high front rounded
vowel and corresponding semivowel in Tech (because I use u-umlaut for the
high *central* rounded vowel which is found in Swedish and Norwegian; it's
simply Russian bI/Turkish dotless-i but rounded).

I knew that y-umlaut (char FF/255 in Latin-1, the very last one) had some
use...

Danny

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