On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Peter Constable wrote:
From: Martin Hosken [mailto:martin_hosken at sil.org]How do I tag text in the IPA script that can be in any language?Just to clarify: IPA can be used to transcribe any language, but any instance of IPA transcription is in *some* particular language.
Normally so, but the particular language may be unknown; this however is no different from a case where you have, say, text in Latin letters and you do not know its language (yet). Moreover, it is possible to use IPA to describe words that appear the same (in pronunciation) in different languages, in which case we would probably use "mul" if we had to tag the text. So there are situations where there the language tagging is not obvious, but this may happen for any script, not just IPA.
-- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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