>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