▲ 89 ▼ Vancouver man says institutions unable to recognize new Indigenous street name (globalnews.ca) submitted 1 year ago by grue@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 20 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/217784 Signposts on the Vancouver street bear the English name below the official Musqueam name, which is written in the North American Phonetic Alphabet. From this RSS feed
[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children) Is this not IPA? I thought the article said it was permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) it's the alphabet the BC first nations use. it uses similar characters but not with ipa pronunciations. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago TIL - thanks permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) it's the alphabet the BC first nations use. it uses similar characters but not with ipa pronunciations. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago TIL - thanks permalink fedilink source parent