Thanks Suzanne and Jonathan for the informative and interesting
replies. By chance there is an RFI on Linguist list that perhaps some
may be able to reply to.

It leads to another question as to how well braille now supports
languages written with extended Latin scripts (those for which the
extended characters used to represent sounds not represented by the
standard Western alphabet are in the IPA and other extended Latin
ranges)...

Don


Date: 17-Feb-2005
From: Sarah Gray <hca02sg@...>
Subject: Braille and Phonetics

Dear Linguists,

I am studying B.Sc Human Communication Sciences at Sheffield
University, and am totally blind. I would like to develop my career
in phonetic analysis of typical and impaired speech. The Braille
system which I currently use allows me to transcribe most of the IPA,
but does not provide me with Ext.IPA or VOQs symbols. I aim to
develop my current system further to include these, but would first
be interested to make contact with other Braille IPA users and to
discover their transcription methods. I ultimately hope to create a
system which is as standardised as the written one, and feel that
anyone wishing to use it should be involved.

If you or anyone you know can help, please let me know.

Many thanks.

Sarah Gray.
hca02sg@...