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transcription changes

Currently, this page offers too narrow a transcription convention. There are a number of things we should do to modify it

  1. Use <o> for both long and short o. It looks like the vowel is actually mid to close-mid, and we might as well use the typographically easiest letter (this is how it's done with Spanish, Greek, and Hebrew).
  2. Remove the diacritics for the diphthongs so that they are either [ou], [ɛu] and [au] or [ow], [ɛw] and [aw]. I'm leaning towards the former but if Czech makes contrasts between e.g. Cau and Ca.u, then the latter is better.
  3. organize the symbols in alphabetical order like they are done in the other IPA for X pages. This also includes not separating sonorants and consonants into different tables.
  4. remove the voiceless version of the fricative trill since it's an allophone and requires additional diacritics that we needn't require editors to use.
  5. note somehow that /oː/. /f/, /g/, and the two voiced affricates appear mostly/only in foreign loanwords.
Then we can create {{IPA-cs}} and start using this page. — Ƶ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi] 18:28, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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