[Tlhingan-hol] Klingan with IPA

[Michael Everson]

On 30 May 2012, at 23:48, André Müller wrote:

> If you analyze the {y} as a vowel instead of a glide, then you need to mark it as unsyllabic, otherwise your transcription looks like a disyllabic word. So it should be [ɖui̯] and [ɖui̯ʔ], if you prefer this analysis over the one that treats {y} as a glide.

I am used to transcribing Cornish, where we write [aɪ] and [iʊ] and [oɪ] and [uɪ] (as in the recently-published Desky Kernowek, http://www.evertype.com/books/desky.html). For me [j] and [w] are a consonants. If you have vowels in hiatus as well as diphthongs with semivowels, you might need to distinguish them in transcription, but not otherwise. It depends on the structure of the language.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/