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Welcome to this page under construction.
The point of this page is to move towards an agreed upon set of Unicode encodings to represent the phonemes of the Salishan languages. Once the encodings are agreed on, we can make keyboard managers to simplify the input.
If you want to point out an error, a missing phoneme, or offer a suggestion, do so by emailing Tony Mattina (you can find that address elsewhere in these pages).
Two symbols listed horizontally (side by side in the same cell) are alternative graphic representations of the same phoneme--both symbols will be part of the agreed upon set of Salish phonemes. For example, to represent the voiceless postvelar fricative both the x-subdot and the x-wedge are available.
Two symbols listed vertically (one above the other in the same cell) are suggested alternatives to represent a single phoneme: only one will eventually be chosen. For example, either m with COMBINING COMMA ABOVE or m with COMBINING COMMA ABOVE RIGHT will be the agreed upon symbol.
In order to see these symbols, you must select a unicode font (tools, internet options, general, fonts--this works for Windows XP). Office XP includes the font, but you have to install it first (search for Unicode in Office Help). I think you can download some unicode fonts for free from the SIL site. Click on computing (at the SIL site).
Symbol cells are color-coded. Green = good; Fuchsia = not acceptable; Yellow = acceptable; White = nothing to say (yet).
Every phoneme symbol (simple or a sequence of symbols) will eventually be clickable, and the unicode encoding will be shown in a popup window (with appropriate comments--I am experimenting with this).
Here is a Word file with instructions how to use the keyboard, and a zipped Keyman (Version 5) executable keyboard manager for Salish.
Click to download. Unzip the file and run the .exe file.