On 2013-09-12, Michael Everson <ever...@evertype.com> wrote: > On 12 Sep 2013, at 09:07, Julian Bradfield <jcb+unic...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >> Interesting. I see that disunification of the remaining IPA greek letters is >> proceeding by stealth - > > No, Julian. It's by design. Only theta remains.
Hm, that's not what the comments in some of the working documents suggest:-) "not intended for use with the IPA" for chi. >> we have latin chi thanks to German dialectologists, and latin beta thanks to >> Gabonese. My question is, >> why should they not be used for IPA ? > > I think they should. I will be taking this up with the Association. Then we have the problem that LATIN SMALL LETTER CHI seems to be (as originally named) a stretched x, which is what the uvular fricative sign *ought* to look like to be properly harmonious, but the IPA seems determined that it looks like a upright greek chi - wrong stroke bias, no roman serifs (in the current version), swung terminations to the TL-BR stroke. You describe this in your web page, but I'm not sure what you think the reference glyph should be: did the dialectologists use a true stretched x? I have tried using a stretched x in my transcriptions, and I have to say it looks weird! > No, just theta. The bizarrely-names Latin ʊ is already in use by the > Association. Very true. Somehow I hadn't noticed that ʋ was there - and also bizarrely named, since as PSG observes, it looks much more like upsilon than ʊ does. Why it was called V WITH HOOK rather than SCRIPT V? Was it for Africanist reasons? -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.