Re: ISO 639-3 beta input form (was: Questions re ISO-639-1,2,3)

From: Chris Harvey (chris@languagegeek.com)
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 12:17:13 CDT

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    Ysgrifennodd Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr> ar y 24-08-2005 am 12:05:
    > * [oun] !O!ung (Scope=I, Type=L)
    > * [nmn] !Xóõ (Scope=I, Type=L)
    > * [alu] 'Are'are (Scope=I, Type=L)
    > * [kud] 'Auhelawa (Scope=I, Type=L)
    > * [hnh] //Ani (Scope=I, Type=L)
    > * [gnk] //Gana (Scope=I, Type=L)
    > * [xeg] //Xegwi (Scope=I, Type=E)
    > * [gwj] /Gwi (Scope=I, Type=L)
    > * [xam] /Xam (Scope=I, Type=E)
    > * [huc] =/Hua (Scope=I, Type=L)
    > * [aue] =/Kx'au//'ein (scope=I, Type=L)

    > I suspect that "/" means the combining slash overlay, and "//" the
    > combining double-slash overlay, I suspect the quote to to mean the
    > apostrophe letter, but what does the equal sign mean? I also suspect
    > that those languages don't have known orthographies (only spoken for
    > now)...

    It is my understanding that:

    / is for LATIN LETTER DENTAL CLICK (U+01C0)
    // is for LATIN LETTER LATERAL CLICK (U+01C1)
    =/ is for LATIN LETTER ALVEOLAR CLICK (U+01C2)
    ! is for LATIN LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK (U+01C3)
    ' is for MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE (U+02BC)

    Chris Harvey 

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