At 17:18 +0000 2005-08-21, suzmccarth wrote:

> > If she had given me the text MA SI LEE SI NI KE YA KPOO LOO etc. it
> > would have been faster for me to type it in for my analysis.
>
>So sorry.

It's fine, I had fun reading the MS myself.

>I was trying to maintain for myself the plosive -- implosive
>contrast in some way that was comprehensible to those who don't have
>the VUP.

The Vai Unicode Proposal? If you mean the transcription convention,
it's BH DH for the plosive which is rarer than B D the implosive.

>I also wonder what the Vai SIL keyboard uses, surely some other
>roman orthography.

I don't know; I'm using my own OS X keyboard with my own font made
using Jason Glavy's glyphs.
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