View source for YPA (Yinrih Phonetic Alphabet)

Now that I'm working on Outlander, and since I want to start working on Hearthsider in the future, I decided I want to create a universal system for referring to yinrih speech sounds. Here is one candidate. Yinrih language is highly tonal. Plenty of Terran languages (Sino-Tibetan especially) like to refer to tones by number. So I've expanded this system to encompass not just tone, but all the features of a vowel. Consonants are indicated by letters (case insensative).
<span style="font-size:200%;line-height:116%"><span style="color:#BF2700">'''Vowels'''</span></span>

<span style="font-size:180%;line-height:116%"><span style="color:#002D97">'''Timing'''</span></span>

'''1''' short
'''2''' long
'''3''' early
'''4''' late
'''5''' overlong

<span style="font-size:180%;line-height:116%"><span style="color:#002D97">'''Tone'''</span></span>

'''1''' low
'''2''' high
'''3''' rising
'''4''' falling
'''5''' peaking
'''6''' dipping

<span style="font-size:180%;line-height:116%"><span style="color:#002D97">'''Strength'''</span></span>

'''1''' weak
'''2''' strong
'''3''' strengthening
'''4''' weakening
'''5''' cresting
'''6''' troughing

<span style="font-size:180%;line-height:116%"><span style="color:#002D97">'''Phonation'''</span></span>

'''1''' whine
'''2''' growl
'''3''' grunt
'''4''' plain hiss vowel
'''5''' trilled hiss vowel

<span style="font-size:200%;line-height:116%"><span style="color:#BF2700">'''Consonants'''</span></span>

'''h''' huff
'''c''' chuff
'''y''' yip
'''p''' plain hiss semivowel
'''t''' trilled hiss semivowel

The system meets my criterion of only containing ASCII characters, but it's not compact in the slightest. Just the word &lt;rnqg&gt; ''paw'' is &lt;c1213h1112&gt;.

Thoughts?


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