Re: Nuuchahnulth dictionary

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Sun May 29 2005 - 19:00:49 CDT

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Hans Aberg wrote:

>> Nuuchahnulth is written in the Latin script, albeit with many
>> diacritics and special letters.

> Not entirely, it seems. Go to
> http://www.nuuchahnulth.org/hashilth.htm
> and pick April 21, 2005 Edition
> http://www.nuuchahnulth.org/hashilthsa/april2105.pdf
> On page 14, there is are examples of test, including special symbols for
> glottal stop and pharyngeal.

This is what I meant by 'special letters'. The orthography is based on Americanist
phonetics, and like many languages that extend the Latin script, it does so with
phoneticist symbols.

John Hudson

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