Re: CHAT: English & "a whole pile of new letters" (wasRe: chat: a conlang of my very own :)

From: "Tristan McLeay" <kesuari@...>
> >     also that lettre-form that looks like a lower-cased 3 to represent
> > accented schwa and/or certain r-coloured vowels.
>
> I do believe this would be the yogh of which you speak. Except that yogh
> made the /G/ sound I think. Or was yogh just the letter used for <g>? I
> can't remember...
So I thought at first too.  But IPA does have a letter that looks like a small 3
(or better:  a reversed open e [E] symbol).   In (many people's) English, that
vowel rhoticized is in words like "bird" /b3`d/.

([3] is also, I find, the default realization of Ibran's schwa phoneme.)

    *Muke!
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