tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 01 01:05:49 2009
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Re: Two pronunciation questions...
On 1 Nov 2009, at 00:16, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> The ' is probably meant to represent aspiration; apostrophe is
> commonly used for that. The [tÉ] is supposed to be strongly
> aspirated, i.e. [tÉÊ], and with affricates it's also common to put
> the aspiration indicator on the stop symbol rather than the fricative.
The apostrophe is not used to indicate aspiration in the IPA.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/