Universal Transcription System (Jörg Rhiemeier)
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For many years, Jörg Rhiemeier used a Universal Transcription System to transcribe all his conlangs. The transcription system is charted below.
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voiceless stops | p | t | k | ' | |||
| Voiced stops | b | d | g | ||||
| Voiceless fricatives | f | th | s | sh | jh | kh | h |
| Voiced fricatives | v | dh | z | zh | gh | ||
| Nasals | m | n | nj | ng | |||
| Laterals | l | lj | |||||
| Rhotics | r | ||||||
| Semivowels | w | j | |||||
Obviously, this misses several entire places (e.g., retroflex, uvular, pharyneal) and manners of articulation (e.g., lateral fricatives, ejectives, implosives, clicks) of whose existence the author wasn't aware back then.
Vowels
| Front unround |
Front round |
Central unround |
Back round | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | y | u | |
| Mid | e | oe | o | |
| Low | ae | a | ao |
Again, many possible vowels are not covered.