My only real complaint here is the spelling: there are five vowels, /ɑ, ɛ, ɪ, o, u/, written ⟨a, e, I, o, u⟩-why ⟨I⟩ and not ⟨i⟩? Why is /ɣ/ ⟨gh⟩ and not ⟨g⟩ (there is no /ɡ/)? /ɖ/ being ⟨D⟩ rather than ⟨d⟩ (there is no /d/) is defensible, I guess, but /ŋ/ should have been ⟨N⟩ rather than ⟨ng⟩ if you're coming up with a writing system for a language in 1985 or 1992 or 2285 or 2368, there's no good reason not to make it phonemic. χ/), but as ⟨gh⟩ is described as the voiced equivalent and certainly represents /ɣ/ and not /ʁ/, ⟨H⟩ is certainly /x/. ⟨H⟩ is described as like the ch in Bach (i.e. The book very reasonably starts with a chapter on phonology, and while Okrand obviously doesn't use the IPA he describes the sounds of the language quite precisely, with no unresolvable ambiguities and only a few instances of sloppiness-e.g. I first bought and read this book when I was in middle school in possibly 1997, but my grasp on linguistics is a bit better now than it was when I was 11 so I figured it was worth revisiting.
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