The name FUPA

[Johanna Laakso]

Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com> wrote:
>
> Juhani Lehtiranta pointed out that while the original name of was
> Finno-Ugric Phonetic alphabet, it is nowadays more common to use the
> term Uralic since the transcription system can be applied to Uralic
> and I guess Turkic languages which are not of the Finno-Ugric branch.
>
> Well, we could call it the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet (UPA), though I
> am used to FUPA. Does anyone have a strong view on this? Is either
> FUPA or UPA used much outside the context of our encoding project?
> --
> Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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