How would I represent multiple transliterations for one phoneme in a chart?
I was thinking something like this:
⟨k~q⟩ /k/
It might work, though it doesn't make the most sense, and I would prefer to use the more common method [if there is one.]
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I was thinking something like this:
⟨k~q⟩ /k/
It might work, though it doesn't make the most sense, and I would prefer to use the more common method [if there is one.]
I would use a comma: ⟨k⟩, ⟨q⟩
.
The tilde is a reasonable option, since it means "alternates with depending on context" (i.e. /k~q/
is a phoneme where [k]
alternates with [q]
), but I also associate it very strongly with phonology; when first seeing ⟨k~q⟩ /k/
I mentally transposed the brackets and thought the glyph ⟨k⟩
meant the phoneme /k~q/
.
⟨k/q⟩
So, that's an alternative too.
Sep 7, 2022 at 22:52