Ambiguous 'N' (was: dive)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, johnvertical@... wrote:

> Every halfway standardized ASCII-IPA variant I'm aware of (SAMPA and Kirshenbaum, most importantly) uses capital N for the velar nasal and a tilde for nasalization.

In Torsten's defence, I've seen 'N' used alongside IPA characters to indicate a nasalisation phoneme. And among ASCII notations, we have the Kyoto-Harvard notation where N is the cerebral nasal and G is the velar nasal.

Richard.