User talk:MarkJJones

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Nambikwara phonetics
I have removed your caveat about Nambikwara consonants from the article. First of all I had made the mistake of writing "ejective" when the data I based the phonology on (Kroekers grammar) said "glottalized" - that was an error from copying the table format whch had ejective in it already. The aspirated kw was a mere transcription error as you said where both the w and h should have been superscript. These two errors of mine I have now fixed - and the caveat seems to be unneeded. But other than that I must tell you that such comments should duly go on the discussion page and not in the rticle text. Unless of course you could source your comments to a published work on nambikwara phonetics. that being said it is obvious that more work is needed to properly understand nambikwara phonetics, but that is the case for most indigenous languages of the americas - apparently not many phoneticians enjoy travelling to remote locations to work on obscure languages. But in wikipedia we will have to base our language articles on the published data however inadequate it is. I hope you can help me improve the coverage of language and phonetics related topics in the future and find my mistakes so they can be corrected. ·Maunus· · ƛ · 09:13, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

IPA
Replied on my talk page. You may be right that we should call them "symbols", but if we do we'll need to be logically consistent about it. — kwami (talk) 08:17, 8 August 2013 (UTC)