At 03:29 PM 8/6/2004, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>Pray tell me more. Where can I find an account?

well, when I finally get finished writing the article... I'll let
you know who's kind enough to publish it...

>That's what I would have expected, but the examples in Table 10-9 of the
>Unicode Standard (
><http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch10.pdf>http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch10.pdf
>) would then implied /ka/, which is not possible in Tai Le (
><http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tai/TaiDehong/phonology.htm>http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tai/TaiDehong/phonology.htm
>) (The error in the first /ki/ is known by Unicode.) Presumably, then,
>the inherent vowel is /a:/ in open syllables and /a/ in closed syllables.

There is currently only a length distinction between /a/ and /a:/
in Tai Le, and even that is now only found in closed syllables: /kap/ !=
/ka:p/ /man/ != /ma:n/, etc.

cheers,
-Patrick