Americanist phonetic notation
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Americanist phonetic notation is a system of phonetic transcription traditionally used by linguists in the Americas to represent the sounds of Indigenous and other languages with a specialized set of symbols.
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
orthographic convention
ⓘ
phonetic transcription system ⓘ |
| comparedWith | International Phonetic Alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contemporaneousWith | International Phonetic Alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developedFor | American Indigenous languages ⓘ |
| developedIn |
North America
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| differsFrom |
International Phonetic Alphabet in symbol values
ⓘ
International Phonetic Alphabet in transcription conventions NERFINISHED ⓘ International Phonetic Alphabet in use of diacritics ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
based on Latin alphabet
ⓘ
multiple regional conventions ⓘ non-IPA symbol inventory ⓘ specialized set of symbols ⓘ uses diacritics ⓘ uses digraphs ⓘ uses modified Roman letters ⓘ variation between authors ⓘ |
| hasNotationVariant |
American Phonetic Alphabet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North American Phonetic Alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSymbolFor |
ejective consonants
ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ nasalized vowels ⓘ palatalized consonants ⓘ retroflex consonants ⓘ stress ⓘ tone ⓘ vowel length ⓘ |
| historicallyAssociatedWith |
American structuralist linguistics
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Boasian tradition ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
19th-century philological traditions
ⓘ
missionary orthographies ⓘ |
| partiallyReplacedBy | International Phonetic Alphabet in contemporary practice ⓘ |
| stillUsedBy | some field linguists ⓘ |
| stillUsedIn |
dictionaries of Indigenous American languages
ⓘ
grammars of Indigenous American languages ⓘ |
| usedBy | linguists in the Americas ⓘ |
| usedFor |
descriptive linguistics
ⓘ
documentation of endangered languages ⓘ field linguistics ⓘ phonemic transcription ⓘ phonetic transcription ⓘ |
| usedForLanguageFamily |
Indigenous languages of the Americas
ⓘ
Mesoamerican languages ⓘ Native American languages ⓘ North American Indigenous languages ⓘ South American Indigenous languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn | linguistics ⓘ |
| usedToRepresent |
allophones
ⓘ
phonemes ⓘ speech sounds ⓘ |
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