David Peterson scripsit:
> The thing is, I don't know the IPA symbol for this vowel. I've
> scoured the net, and every single chart I find has the /I/ and /Y/ symbols,
> then the /U/ symbol but not its counterpart.
That does appear to be the official state of affairs.
> It's as if they think this
> vowel doesn't occur in the world's languages, or something!
A sound has to have phonemic status in at least one language in order
to have a symbol in the chart. Can you exhibit a minimal pair with /U/?
> Anyway, if
> somebody could point me to somewhere where I could find the symbol for that
> vowel, or, barring that, could describe it, I would greatly appreciate it.
The Right Thing to represent this sound would be to use
U+028A LATIN LETTER UPSILON (what ASCII-IPA spells "U") with
U+031C COMBINING LEFT HALF RING BELOW, the diacritic for "less rounded".
See http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/fullchart.html for the
appearances.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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