On 2016/06/23 03:12 AM, clipka wrote:

> 1) You still need to introduce somewhat arbitrary notation for any
> phonetic features arising from dynamic processes, such as trills,
> taps/flaps, implosives, and what-have-you-nots. It is there that all the
> ease of visual understanding breaks down at the very next cultural barrier.
>

I do have trills and taps/flaps. The symbol is basically a graph of the 
movement of the tongue. I still need to do implosives, tones and the rest.

> 2) It does not deal with the phenomenon of allophones, i.e. sounds that
> are generated in different ways but perceived as identical.
>

All allophones should be written phonetically with this system.

> My suggestion would be to stick with the IPA alphabet. Not only is it
> well-established in the expert community, well-supported by Unicode, and
> well-equipped for pretty much any human vocal expression you could
> possibly imagine -- it also comes with a host of tried and tested best
> practices how to actually apply it to various different use cases.
>

This will be mapped to the IPA alphabet in Unicode.

Thanks for the input.

My son is into linguistics and calligraphy and I find the IPA very 
confusing, so I thought of creating a more visual representation that 
can represent any sound you can make.

I know; if you are going to learn a new language, you can just as well 
learn the normal IPA first. I guess I'm a stickler for logical systems.

This one is for a right to left system. It can be mirrored for left to 
right. The main reason I did this one right to left is because all the 
IPA charts show the vowels with the mouth facing left.

It also makes a nice SF font which will probably be it's main use :)



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