Reversal of the dental and palatal stems

[Alan Post]

Sam,

In a private message to me, you mentioned updates you've made to
phon, and specifically mentioned that the dental and palatal stems
have been reversed.

So that I understand, does this mean that the IPA 't' and 'c' are
reversed, and that the IPA 'd' and "vertically reversed f"
(or: upside-down f) are reversed? Do I understand the idea given my
two examples?

Thank you!

-Alan
--
Every place a riddle,
every riddle a poem,
every poem a spirit,
every spirit a place.

[Sam Putman]

That's it exactly, although the character you've so accurately
described as an 'upside down f' is considered a 'bar j' in IPA
thinking.

Basically, dentals are far more numerous and common than palatals,
although many languages make use of palatalized consonants (symbolized
differently). The double extended dental added a lot of visual noise
to the writing, making it relatively difficult to read the vowels, and
more subtly, making it harder to read the 'shape' of a word.

I do hope to get the chart updated soon, especially since I have my
desktop screen now. MakerBeam has put a lot on my plate though, so
we'll have to see.

Cheers,
-Sam

[Alan Post]

Thank you for your quick lesson on the IPA. I'm studying it in
detail for the first time alongside studying phon, and learning
the IPA has been my biggest hurdle over the last couple of days.

I'm happy to have any help you'll give, but I'll plod right along
without it. I'm evaluating using phon to write lojban, which I'm
slowly teaching myself at the same time. Lojban is (essentially)
audio-visually isomorphic, and uses a restricted set phonemes, so
I'm focusing on the set of valid lojbanic sounds for writing in
phon.

Cheers,

-Alan