Pronunciation Questions

[John F. Schwaller]

The current convention for the glottal stop is to use the letter 
-h-  Others use the question mark -?- The use of the -h- conforms to 
what we call the modified Franciscan-Jesuit system.  The only 
drawback is that for beginners in the language they think all -h- 
occurrences are glottal stops, and we use the -h- in various 
digraphs: -hu- for the "w" sound, and of course -ch-




At 04:35 PM 2/22/2007, Matthew Montchalin wrote:
>| 2.  The convention that we use here on the list is to place a colon
>| following the long vowel (since many computer mail programs do not
>| allow us to use character sets that include a macron), and use
>|CAPS for stress.
>|
>| Examples:
>| te:-MO-a: [long e, long a, stress on the mo] - to seek something
>| or
>| te-MO:-hua [long o, stress on the mo] - for descent to take place
>
>Hmmmm.  Well.  Okay.  Still, I think I've seen the colon used for a
>stop, such as the glottal stop, for instance.  I guess I'll have to
>keep track of your usage so I don't confuse it with anybody else's.
>Somehow, I'd much rather use an uppercase 'Q' for the glottal stop,
>if not a colon.

John F. Schwaller
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