FOR ARCHIVING: Registration form for 'fonkirsh'

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LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

1. Name of requester: Sascha Brawer
2. E-mail address of requester: sascha at brawer.ch
3. Record Requested:

      Type: variant
      Subtag: fonkirsh
      Description: Kirshenbaum Phonetic Alphabet

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

Phonetic transcription according to the Kirshenbaum Phonetic Alphabet.

5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):

https://web.archive.org/web/20160419125856/http://www.kirshenbaum.net/IPA/ascii-ipa.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirshenbaum

6. Any other relevant information:

The Kirshenbaum phonetic alphabet was commonly used in Usenet until the
mid-1990s. In the meantime, IPA [fonipa] and X-Sampa [fonxsamp] have
become more popular as transcription systems; but there’s still
occasional use of the Kirschenbaum notation. For example, the
application programming interface of the espeak open-source
text-to-speech synthesis system accepts phonemic input in Kirshenbaum
transcription. The project will likely modernize its API at some point;
but in order to not break old clients, the software will need some
identifier for the phonetic alphabet.