Re: IPA block in Unicode

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 12:50:07 +0200, Jean-Fran=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E7ois?= Colson
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>From: "Herman Miller" <hmiller@...>
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>Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 5:25 AM
>Subject: Re: IPA block in Unicode
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>> Henrik Theiling wrote:
>>
>>> Ah!  Ok, I recognised the trivial ones then.  Still, for what the
>>> heck is a db digraph or a qp digraph used? %-|
>>
>> Labiodental stops.
>>
>>
>
>Doulos SIL Regular is not really up-to-date: the db and qp digraphs are
>located at U+F240 and U+F241 respectively (in the private use area), while
>Unicode placed them at U+0238 and U+0239. The Unicode standard also adds
>"used in Africanist linguistics." But I don't know in which languages they
>are used, and if they are used in languages out of Africa.
>They're not IPA characters, are they?
>How would you write a labiodental stop in IPA?
>
The db and qp digraphs were invented by Doke back in the 30's or 40's to
represent labiodental stops in South African Nguni languages, but were
never really accepted into the IPA, though they have been used sporadically
over the years by various authors, mostly in plain & prenasalized
affricates in Zulu, Tswana, etc.

Official IPA for a labiodental would be b or p with the dental subscript.

-Bfowol