Re: Tone Marks

En réponse à John Cowan <cowan@...>:

>
> gua!spi, aka gua\spi, places the tone mark just before the syllable.
> / is a rising tone, \ is a falling tone (! is an alternative),
> - is high tone, = is low tone, ^ is rising-falling tone, | some
> what arbitrarily is falling-rising tone.  The inventor also uses
> the same convention for asciiromanizing Mandarin.
>
Funny, I have kind of the same marks (except that I put them after the
syllable). I use / and \ for the same meaning as in gua!spi. I had thought of -
as high tone mark, but it was so small compared to / and \ that I thought it
didn't fit esthetically, and it would be easily overlooked, so I went on with
|. As for low tone, when I mark it at all, I use : (which is not too far from
= :)) ). I don't have other tones in Itakian so I didn't have to come up with
everything else (funny enough, Itakian doesn't want circumflex tones. If a
syllable with a rising tone collapses with a syllable with a falling tone, the
resulting phonetic syllable will have low tone. The middle high part is
completely erased).

Christophe.

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