Re: Graeca sine flexione

Hi!

T. A. McLeay writes:
>...
> My attention was brought yesterday to do the natlang Wakhi, which
> according to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakhi_language> has joined in
> the fun too.
Cool, I did not know a natlang does it.

> It's basically Latin, but uses delta, theta, a gamma-oid letter (its
> capital is a larger version of the lowercase greek gamma, rather
> than being an upside-down L),
Ah, this solves the problem of capital letters being the same in
Cyrillic and Greek.  Would allow for three g-like letters in a conlang
alphabet then! :-)  Do you know whether it's in Unicode?

Three g's is easy: some of my langs have /g/, /G/ and /G\/.  I'd
probably use greek gamma for /G/ and cyrillic g for /\G/ then.
(Although lower case cyrillic /g/ is easily visually confused with
Latin /r/.)

> and the cyrillic letter used for hard
> i in Russian. There's also a rotated e which might be used for /&/
> like in Cyrillic, or might be /@/, but it doesn't really say...
It would also be interesting to know what the dot below is and the
hacek of {j}.  Some letters can be guessed from the vocab section,
which gives pronunciation, not orthography.  Rotated e seems to be
/@/.

**Henrik

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