Re: [sinhala-technical] LTRL Suggestions
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From: Asanka W. <wa...@gm...> - 2008-05-15 09:59:31
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> > > If we are going to introduce arbitrary characters to the #define, I'd > rather go with "ang2". It's a bit more obvious and avoids a non-Sinhala > speaker thinking that the 'x' is meant to be pronounced. good idea! > > Are you happy with ඤ = "nya"? I thought it was closer to "nja"? yes. nya 'sounds' fine. > > Perhaps I should have elaborated on why it would not work. Using your > suggestion we get: > ---------------------------------- > ත - tha > ථ - thha > ට - ta > ඨ - tha > ---------------------------------- > Note, ත collides with ඨ. Both use "tha". nope. here goes our suggestion. ත - tha ථ - thha ට - ta ඨ - ttha > > > Do you guys have another suggestion? Otherwise we are stuck with the > de-facto scheme for these 4 letters. I would really like to hear a > suggestion that can replace the de-facto scheme. > :-( > > > Similarly, you need to consider all 4 for: > > ඩ - alpapraana ddayanna (dda) > > ඪ - mahaapraana ddayanna (ddha) > > ද - alpapraana dayanna (da) > > ධ - mahaapraana dayanna (dha) > this looks fine for us! > > > > What's the IPA transliteration for: > > ශ - taaluja sayanna (sha) > > ෂ - muurdhaja sayanna (ssa) > > > > ශ -palatal = /ʃ/ > > ෂ - retroflex (toung further back) = /ʂ/ > > > > Which one has the tongue further back? > > > > In spoken Sinhala, we normally pronounce the same sound "palatal > > fricative" for both ශ and ෂ. > > > > Following is an extract from the book "An Introduction to Spoken > > Sinhala, W.S. Karunatillake" > > "The Symbol ෂ which is meant to represnt the retroflex sibilant /ʂ/ > > '( +a), is pronounced like palatal sibilant ශ /ʃ/ (+a)" > > BTW, which page is it on? > Introduction, section 1.6.2.1 page xxiv Sorry, it was due to cut and paste error, following are the correct IPA symbols . > ශ -palatal = /ʃ/ > ෂ - retroflex (toung further back) = /ʂ/ > > > regards, Asanka |