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

Quoting Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>:

> Hallo!
>
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:22:39 +0100,
> Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Jean-François Colson <fa597525@...> writes:
> > >...
> > > 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/
> >
> > Haha!  Regular, indeed, but |nbq| for /m/ is hardcore, isn't it? :-)
>
> It is.  I hereby nominate it for the 2005 Andreas Award.
It's a worthy contestant.

I do find the use of 'q' as a "stop subtractor" neat. An antistop, I suppose.


                                                       Andreas

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