Universal Transcription System (Jörg Rhiemeier)
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For many years, Jörg Rhiemeier used a Universal Transcription System to transcribe all his conlangs. The transcription system is charted below.
Consonants
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Voiceless stops | p | t | k | ' | |||
Voiced stops | b | d | g | ||||
Voiceless fricatives | f | th | s | sh | jh | kh | h |
Voiced fricatives | v | dh | z | zh | gh | ||
Nasals | m | n | nj | ng | |||
Laterals | l | lj | |||||
Rhotics | r | ||||||
Semivowels | w | j |
Obviously, this misses several entire places (e.g., retroflex, uvular, pharyneal) and manners of articulation (e.g., lateral fricatives, ejectives, implosives, clicks) of whose existence the author wasn't aware back then.
Vowels
Front unround |
Front round |
Central unround |
Back round | |
---|---|---|---|---|
High | i | y | u | |
Mid | e | oe | o | |
Low | ae | a | ao |
Again, many possible vowels are not covered.