Re: CHAT: IPA Question

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 08:13:48PM +0200, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>:
[snip]
> > 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.
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> 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.
!!!!

I think you've hit upon the answer for my question...

> 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 :)) .
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OK, I just googled through a few IPA websites, and I think I got the
answer now. The [`] prefix in Ebisedian (diacritic in my LaTeX-ified
orthography) is simply IPA's [_^] diacritic. It all makes sense now:

`u --> [u_^u] = [wu]
`y --> [y_^y] = [jy]
`i --> [i_^i] = [ji]

and therefore, the same must hold for the other vowels:

`w --> [8_^8]
`a --> [a_^a]

and so on.

Cool, I'll have to update my vowel descriptions :-) So basically, _`o'mi_
is pronounced [o_^omi]. (If you must know, it refers to that bluish green
color along the lines of aquamarine/cyan/turqoise.  Well, not quite
turqoise; it's a bit greener than that.)

And the plural of _aa'ri_ [a:r`i] ("foreignness", "otherness") is
_`aarii'_ [a_^a:r`i:]. Wow, it sure looks ugly in SAMPA. It'll look much
nicer when typeset with TIPA, I promise! ;-)

Finally, I can represent the three "voicings" of an Ebisedian vowel:
        "harsh":        ha      [ha]
        "abrupt":       a       [?a]
        "smooth":       `a      [a_^a]

Cool. Thanks to all who responded :-)


T

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