Re: Meanwhile...

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:

Even Canepari only sees an [a] sound there in phonetic
transcription.

  Canepari cooked up his own phonetic alphabet (which kind of
  lines up with IPA in some spots) and he's all about giving each
  sound its own symbol, without having to mess with those pesky
  diacritics. So he ends up with this super-detailed breakdown of
  "vocoids" (that's fancy talk for what are "vowel phones" to us
  regular folks) into about 60 different flavors.

  But wait, there's more! He also whipped up symbols for all the
  in-between spots (between two of these vocoids), which brings
  the grand total to a whopping 100 individual vocoid symbols.

  The Spanish variations of [a] wouldn't be distinguishable with
  just the first 60, but they each get their own symbol among
  these 100 unique characters.

  Now, here's the rub - since these symbols aren't all part
  of the Unicode club, I can't give you the full picture here.