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[Request] review orthography profile #4

Closed Wu-Urbanek closed 4 years ago

Wu-Urbanek commented 4 years ago

There are two BIPA errors now. The 6 and 8 should be tones, I replaced "6" to "⁶" and "8" to "⁸". Any suggestion?

LinguList commented 4 years ago

Yes. ⁶ and ⁸ are no real tones, but RELATIVE tones.

We have that, unfortunately, in some datasets.

The workaround is, to write all tones with the / construct:

Grapheme IPA
¹ ¹/¹
² ²/²
... ...
⁶ ⁶/⁵¹
⁷ ⁷/⁵²
⁸ ⁸/⁵³

as you can see: we distinguish the tones in the end, but we do as if they are "pronounced", although there is no real pronunciation given in the data...

Wu-Urbanek commented 4 years ago

I see. I modified the tones ( 6 and 8 ). I will refine it further if we can get the PDF file "Vocabularies of Guangxi ethnic languages[广西民族语言方音词汇]".