Re: Zetowvu / Ezotwuv (new conlang)

Tristan wrote:
>For a while, Christophe (and others?) was working on his own ASCII IPA
>because X-SAMPA is unaesthetic and lacks good mnemonics, and other ASCII
>IPAs don't represent the entire IPA with simple characters. I don't know
>what happened to it in the end; it probably fell onto a backburner and
>then dropped behind the oven. Of course, knowing my luck, Christophe's
>been working hard at it and is about to start using it tomorrow...
Jörg Rhiemeier (I think he's back onlist now) has made an ASCII-IPA scheme
called "CPA", which's the best, mnemonically speaking, I've seen. I dunno if
its available anyplace on the 'net right now, tho'.

One of it's niftier features is using a mathematicsesque convention where ^
(circumflex) turns a following character into a superscript one. So, a
voiceless aspirated alveolar stop, which in IPA would be a "t" followed by a
superscript "h", becomes [t^h] in CPA. For someone used both to ASCII-fied
maths and to the IPA, this feels so natural that I've occasionally been
guilty of using it without mentioning it.


     Andreas

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