NetSiouan
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Tue Nov 10 06:13:23 UTC 1998
NetSiouan is a rubric for a technique of representing languages with
Siouan phonologies in ASCII for distribution over an ASCII mail channel.
Nasal vowels: VN, with a capital N saN
V~ sa~
Accented vowels: V' wasa'be
isaN'ge
Voiced stops be, je, j^e, de, ge
Aspirated stops Ch phe, che, c^he, the, khe
Ejective stops C? p?e, c?e, c^he, t?e, k?e
Preaspirates hC hpe, hce, hc^e, hte, hke
Geminates CC ppe, cce, c^c^e, tte, kke
The use of ^ (pseudo-hacek) is optional!
Voiceless Fricatives t^e, se, s^e, xe
Voiced Fricatives d^e, ze, z^e, g^e ~
ghe
Glottalized Fricatives t^?e, s?e, s^?e, x?e
The t^ and d^ are theta and eta.
Here the use of ^ isn't optional, unless you know you can get away with
sh and zh. In general ^ and h are interchangeable as "diacritics" unless
there's a problem with ambiguity. So usually th won't work for t^, but dh
will work for d^.
Enye n~ or ny
Eng n^
Glottal stop ?
Anything not mentioned used the standard character (w, y, h, m, n, etc.).
There are no hard and fast rules. Just use standard notation, but use N
for nasal hook/raised n, whatever, and ^ or h (if possible) for
essentially all diacritics. It's pretty ugly, but it seems to work.
I have another summary at http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz/faq.htm
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