Three Dollar Quill

I've got some tables I want to make for Tsetatsatal, and they could potentially get very complicated, but first I want to figure out how much complication I need.

Consonants, places of articulation:

• labial, possibly considering bilabial separately from labiodental
• alveolar
• palatal
• velar

Consonants, manners of articulation:

• nasal
• plosive
• fricative
• affricate
• approximant
• tap/flap
• lateral approximant

I'm going to have to figure out whether I want to add, remove, consolidate, or relocate stuff to deal with how sparse the chart is.

Vowels are pretty straightforward: open, close-mid, close, and back rounded, front rounded, and front unrounded (not open (if I'm not confused here)).

My want for the code I was planning to write is to support stuff like the weird set of spans that the Received Pronunciation vowel chart has on Wikipedia, but I can make do without that for both of these tables, so I might as well get on that.

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Hm, as I contemplate the prospect of nasalizing all of these vowels, I realize that it would be nice to somehow apply diacritics to a full paradigm. Like if I put them into the field whitespace-separated, and it just maps the diacritic over them.

Okay, let's see. I've copied a bunch of phones out, and I can try to fit them into whatever table I come up with, but it's late and I want to just work on that tomorrow or so.

Good night.