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Re: IPA block in Unicode

From:wayne chevrier <wachevrier@...>
Date:Saturday, August 13, 2005, 17:27
Henrik Theiling nevesht:
>Hi! > >Tim May <butsuri@...> writes: > >... > > of the block in my character map program, so people can see what the > > characters are supposed to look like without having to install the > > font: > > > > http://www.atqz73.dsl.pipex.com/language/doulos.png > >Ah, now that's better. My browser seems to have not shown them >correctly despite the installed Doulos font. That stupid thing. > >What I recognise are pre-composed glyphs for many two-character >Unicode sequences. E.g. retroflex and palatised vowels and >consonants. E.g.in the fifth and sixth row, the CXS equivalents would >be: > >r; s; S; V; x; z; .. Z; a` A` e` E` 3` >@` i` O` u` U\ ... > >Then I recognise the nasal consonants r~, 4~, s~, t~, z~, and f~. But >why m~? I don't know. The 'heng with hook' is Unicode U+0267, but >this also has 'heng' without hook. > > > Anyone who recognizes any of these, you should be able to match them > > to the SIL names at: > > >http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=DoulosSIL_Technical#062ef8d8 > >Ah! Ok, I recognised the trivial ones then. Still, for what the >heck is a db digraph or a qp digraph used? %-| > >**Henrik
'heng': used by some to indicate a theoretically possible phoneme in English of /h/ and /N/(nonconstrative) usually to explain why it isn't, occ. used for a voiceless eng (occ. with 'hem') middle tidle: not nasal but 'emphatic': velarized or pharyngealized db/qp: IIRC labiovelar stops -Wayne Chevrier

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