As @cormacanderson pointed out in his most recent review of the consonants.tsv in bipa, we run into some readability issues due to ugly combinations of diacritics.
Compare the following two identical sounds (the second is our major sound for now):
grapheme
name
dʱ
breathy-voiced alveolar plosive
d̤
breathy-voiced alveolar plosive
with the dental versions:
grapheme
name
d̪̈
breathy-voiced dental plosive
d̪ʱ
breathy-voiced dental plosive
I think we need some general distinction in how to handle sounds and what to define a s alias. I am inclined to say that for readability reasons, we should prefer spacing diacritics to non-spacing ones, even if this requires to re-work on the data.
As @cormacanderson pointed out in his most recent review of the consonants.tsv in bipa, we run into some readability issues due to ugly combinations of diacritics.
Compare the following two identical sounds (the second is our major sound for now):
with the dental versions:
I think we need some general distinction in how to handle sounds and what to define a s alias. I am inclined to say that for readability reasons, we should prefer spacing diacritics to non-spacing ones, even if this requires to re-work on the data.