At 08:36 -0700 2004-06-10, Peter Constable wrote:
Don't you think the fact that P&L don't show them might suggest that, in fact, authors today *don't* particularly use them?
Not necessarily. Indeed, they do quote the name chu: with STRETCHED C, and with both diacritics, the TILDE for nasalization (which is standard) and the CARON BELOW for the rising tone (which is not). So Pullum and Ladusaw are *using* Doke's orthography. If they wanted to show a different word in that orthography they would have to use one of Doke's other letters.
I looked through many publications last year searching for attested phonetic symbols not yet encoded, and while my search wasn't specifically focused on Africanist usage, I did go through a number of Africanist items and never once saw any of these.
Big world, isn't it? There's all those non-Slavic Cyrillic characters which haven't turned up again either.
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