Re: Chevraqis: what they call other languages

On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, dirk elzinga wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> > > Tepa = Teba
> >
> > Gá T'íppa
> > [`gA 'teppa]
> > [ts] for [t] in common pronunciation
>
> Just to be sure that you all are getting it right, Tepa is pronounced
> [ti-Ba] ([i-] is barred-i, right?). <e> is just the orthographic
> convention I adopt for this sound. Also, Tepa has a well-developed
> system of lenition, so phonemic voiceless stops are pronounced as
> voiced fricatives intervocalically (and as voiced stops following
> nasals, and voiceless fricatives before another voiceless stop.
> Details are available at www.langmaker.com (Thanks, Jeffrey!)).
<trying her best>  Chevraqis:

Tepa = Tiba

Is barred-i the dotless i in Turkish, or am I thinking of the wrong
sound?  <wondering>

I do wish my language grammars would give IPA's for their languages
sounds as well as vague English approximations.  <sigh>

YHL