Re: Zvelebil/Epstein/McReynold Comparison
Saul Epstein 
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 09:52:54 -0500

Quotes from: Marketa J Zvelebil <marketa*ludwig,ucl,ac,uk>
Date: Monday, July 13, 1998 9:02 AM


>Seeing the comparissons I go - generelly with the Epstein, with
>only one change, and that due to the fact that the way it has been
>written in books etc should stay that is the "y" should stay as ai:
>so that t'hyla should be written with "y" and not ai.


Right, then. If <y> represents the diphthong /ai/, then we really
shouldn't use it for the sound in "yet," which sends us back to <j>
for that. I don't think that deprives us of <dj> for the sound in
"judge," though, so the dominos stop there.

>Otherwise please lets adopt the Epstein transcription and get on
>with developing the language and making web pages and bringing it
>to the outside world.
>
>I am not sure about "c" being 'SH' in shoe. That may confuse many
>people. why not keep sh as sh in shoe and c as ts in tsunami????
>Again this keeps in with what has been published in books with
>respect to Shikar etc.

OK. For the consonants, at any rate, that gives us:

p       pat
b       bat
f       fat
v       vat
wh      --
w       wet
m       mat
t       tap
d       dash
th      --
dh      --
n       net
c       tsunami
s       suit
z       zoo
sh      shoe
zh      a_z_ure
k       kit
g       get
x       --
h       hat
ng      ra_ng_
ks      a_x_e
q       --
j       yet
rr      --
l       let
whl     --
r       rat?
ch      chat
dj      jet
n~      --

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