Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Transcription Symbol for Unaspirated?
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| Author: | Alexandre Arkhipov | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Language Documentation
Phonetics Phonology Writing Systems |
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| Query: |
Dear colleagues,
Does any of you know of an appropriate transcription symbol for UNaspirated consonants? Background: - We are trying to find some (quasi) standard symbol for unaspirated in (some of the) Nakh-Daghestanian languages, where the aspirated stops and affricates are the unmarked option and very frequent; on the contrary, the unaspirated are the marked and rare option. So we'd like to put no additional symbol for aspiration, marking the unaspirated instead. - This is for a transcription system that is an adaptation of the IPA to the tradition of Daghestanian studies, it is not strictly IPA (the IPA transcription will be provided separately). We don't want to invent something ad hoc but for the moment we don't see any widely used symbol that would fit. - The IPA charts (including 2005 revised version) only have a symbol for the aspirated - a superscript small h. - The Unicode standard lists a ''modifier letter unaspirated'' (U+02ED) which seems to be a superscript equals sign, but we've never seen it used anywhere - are any of you familiar with it? - The best option for us, typographically, would be a symbol placed either below the main character or to the right of it. We are thinking of, for example, a minus or equals sign below, or of the famous triangular colon, for example). We will be grateful for any suggestions and comments. Best regards, Alexandre Arkhipov, OTiPL at Moscow State University |
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| LL Issue: | 19.1148 | |
| Date posted: | 05-Apr-2008 | |
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