Re: Graeca sine flexione

Henrik Theiling wrote:
> 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.
Neither did I till the other day. Although, I suppose, historically Z is
the same thing in latin.

>> 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?
There’s U+0194 Ɣ in Latin Extended B, noted as "African", which’s
associated lowercase is the IPA’s LATIN SMALL LETTER GAMMA U+0263 ɣ.
OTOH, most latin gammas look quite different from the greek gamma (and
the one shown for Wakhi), so these mightn’t be the intended characters:
For this reason I’ve never considered the African languages that use
gamma in the latin alphabet to be mixing and matching.

> 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/.)
Indeed, and I’ve noticed on some European packaging an r is used for
exactly that as (frex.) "500 g/500 r/17.63 oz". Had me stumped the first
time I saw it.

>> 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}.
Indeed it would... WP doesn’t have much information on any of the Pamir
languages in general, so it’s not like we could extrapolate from
relatives either.

--
Tristan.

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