[Ltru] IPA and other transcriptions (was: Re: script tag for IPA)

["Doug Ewell" <dewell at adelphia.net>]

Martin Hosken brings up a good case for the existence of text written 
in, if not 7,000 languages, at least a large percentage of them, using 
IPA.

Let me ask a general, related question.  We have talked about Wade-Giles 
and pinyin, and to a much lesser extent McCune-Reischauer and ALA-LC and 
ISO 9 and other standards and/or conventions for transcribing and/or 
transliterating languages into a different writing system (not, not 
"script") for some purpose.

In what way -- other than the actual repertoire of characters used -- do 
IPA and other phonetic and phonemic notation systems, differ from those?

--
Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California, USA
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
RFC 4645  *  UTN #14


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