Re: CHAT: IPA Question

En réponse à "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>:

>
> The problem is, now I have a word, `o'mi, pronounced [omi] but with a
> "smooth" sound before the [o], but I don't know how to represent this
> in
> IPA. It's somewhere between [wo] and [Go] (with an almost
> non-fricative
> [G]), but not quite like either one.
>
I agree with BP that it would probably be [M\]. I listened to it again with IPA
Help and it really sounds like something between [w] and [G], and sounds very
guttural to me.

> There's also another word which has the plural form _`aarii'_: the
> _`aa_
> is [a:] with a smooth breathing. I've *no* idea how to indicate the
> smooth
> breathing on the _a_ in IPA. It's approximately a [@a] glide, but not
> quite.
>
> Any ideas??
>
What vowel does the glide sound like? IPA has a "non-syllabic" diacritic (a
subscript arch they call it, in X-SAMPA it's _^) which is very handy as it can
turn any vowel into a glide. IPA Help gives the example of [e_^] for instance.
So maybe your glide is basically [@_^], or even [3_^] (funny, those X-SAMPA
compounds nearly look like emoticons ;))) ). Just choose which vowel it sounds
like :)) .

Christophe.

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