Re: Cybalist Phonetic Alphabet: A Modest Proposal [short]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> While working on it, I found it necessary to adopt a consistent
> system of phonetic transcription, especially because of the
> numerous palatalisations, affrications and spirantisations that
> had to be described (SAMPA is too clumsy for this particular
> purpose). The system -- let's call it CPA (short for the Cybalist
> Phonetic Alphabet) -- is laid out below (or at least its
> consonantal section is; I'll do the vowels and suprasegmentals
> later).

[...]

> 2.1. I shall use the following symbols for the "basic"
> coronal obstruents.
>
> [t], [d] (stops)
> [T], [D] (non-sibilant or "wide" fricatives = [þ], [ð])
> [s], [z] (sibilant or "narrow" fricatives)
> [c], [3] (affricates)

Only a modest suggestion: [S] instead of [c] would look slightly
better IMHO.

> Questions and comments welcome.

Some standard notation was indeed useful and this is a good work
for further reference.
I would suggest that after the draft will be "adopted", to be put
as such in the Files section, along with corresponding IPA symbols
(eventually as image file).
Regards,
Marius Iacomi