Zompist Bboard Again

Trying to come up with a phonetic representation of a whistled language...anyone know of any formats? (Grin) Or is this going to be a straight-from-scratch thing?

maybe in an unofficial IPA extension? Definitely not in the standard IPA

If you mean a whistled language like some tonal languages do where you whistle the tones, I've seen notation using tone numbers. I guess you could also use IPA tone symbols and have something like [˧˦˦˥]

The only thing I can think of is the whistled phonation symbol ◌͎. But it's probably pointless to you since everything is whistled.

I would just use musical notes and if I had to write things in a compact line, maybe use colors to mark the tones. How important is tone vs everything else ? E.g. if tone is >50% of the info you might want an orthography that resembles music and highlights the pitch differences most prominently.

Pabappa wrote: ↑Tue Feb 05, 2019 5:26 pm I would just use musical notes and if I had to write things in a compact line, maybe use colors to mark the tones. How important is tone vs everything else ? E.g. if tone is >50% of the info you might want an orthography that resembles music and highlights the pitch differences most prominently.

Strictly speaking the language was going to be toneless...I thought about it being a natural extension of a proto-language that diverged a bit, becoming an avoidance speech of sorts for long flights while the main language evolved into something a bit closer to, say, Georgian.
Ah, well, probably on my own for this one. In which case, I might see about looking into standard musical notation——or possibly something else? There must be something...

Whistled language in natlangs is always a register rather than a sister language to a non-whistled one.

Indeed...but I did rather want to keep the Georgian phonotactics, and couldn't find any examples of how to do so. Perhaps a variation?