Re: The Next Step (was Vulcan in Vulcan)
Rob Zook 
Wed, 22 Oct 1997 09:14:43 -0500

At 08:26 AM 10/22/97 -0500, Saul wrote:
>>
>When using ANSI, for word-processed documents or web-pages, we can, of
>course, use "acute" vowels instead -- letters with an "accent" mark over
>them. It's not my preferred diacritic for this, but there's one available
>for each vowel in the standard set, so we wouldn't need a special font.

Well we do have at least three sets of vowel characters in the ANSI
standard. The unaccented, the ' accented and the ^ accented. There
are also a few umlaut vowels, but not a full set, I think. Also for 
creating such documents we can download the IPA font for free.

>>Well the heading in that section does read the "phonemics" and he
>>started the second section as "Section 2: Minimal contrastive pairs for 
>>phonemics will be provided at a later date.". That seems to make it 
>>pretty clear that the items described constitute phonomes not phonetic 
>>symbols.
>
>I know. And we can treat the nasals as separate phonemes if we want to.
>It will make for an ENORMOUS vowel inventory, compared to a typical 
>Terran language. Having separate long and short phonemes is large as it 
>is. 

It will make coming up with the minimal contrastive pairs rather 
interesting.

Rob Z.
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