========================================== Ega ASCII (X-SAMPA) transcription conventions Dafydd Gibbon ========================================== The following conventions have been developed for using the X-SAMPA ASCII encoding of the IPA. The reasons for using (simplified) X-SAMPA conventions are: - international de facto standardisation in language and speech engineering - transcription without proprietary fonts to avoid unnecessary complications in word processor treatment and automatic computer processing - transcription without unicode in order to avoid the need for hi-tech software and hardware - dissemination as plain text via email and web internet services - retention of human readability - ease of convertability into RTF specifications of other fonts or into unicode by means of scripting languages. ========================================== ------------------------------------------ Table 1: X-SAMPA conventions for Ega ------------------------------------------ CONSONANTS p t c k kp b d J\ g gb b_< d_< J_< g_< gb_< f s x v z l j w m n J N ------------------------------------------ VOWELS i I u U e E o O a ------------------------------------------ TONES _H _M _L ------------------------------------------ ========================================== ------------------------------------------ Table 2: EGA-SAMPA simplified conventions ------------------------------------------ CONSONANTS p t c k kp b d J\ g gb b< d< J< g< gb< f s x v z l j w m n J N ------------------------------------------ VOWELS i I u U e E o O a ------------------------------------------ TONES (after vowel) ' - ` ------------------------------------------