Muak Sa-aak: Challenges of an Extensive Phoneme Inventory for a Contained Latin-Based Orthography

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dc.contributor.authorHall, Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-12T22:05:25Z
dc.date.available2019-09-12T22:05:25Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-12
dc.description.abstractMany Asian languages have extensive phoneme inventories and distinguish suprasegmental features like tone, voice quality, or vowel length. These features are well represented in extensive alphasyllabaries such as Burmese, Khmer or Thai. Apart from challenges of socio- or psycholinguistic nature regarding the need for diacritics, digraphs, or special characters when the language needs more symbols than are available in the contained Latin alphabet, considerable technical challenges may result when new orthographies for minority languages in Asia are based on the Latin alphabet. Several of these challenges were faced when developing a Latin-based orthography for Muak Sa-aak, a Palaungic tonal language of Shan State, Myanmar. This paper will give an overview of the design and features of Latin-based Muak Sa-aak orthography and illustrate computer-technical implications of the choices made.
dc.format.extent8 pages
dc.identifier.issn1836-6821
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10524/52453
dc.subjectMuak Sa-aak
dc.subjectPalaungic
dc.subjectorthography design
dc.subjecttone marks
dc.subjecttext-processing
dc.subject.languagecodeukk
dc.titleMuak Sa-aak: Challenges of an Extensive Phoneme Inventory for a Contained Latin-Based Orthography
dc.typeData paper
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prism.endingpageviii
prism.number2
prism.publicationnameJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
prism.startingpagei
prism.volume12

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