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Re: Graeca sine flexione

From:T. A. McLeay <conlang@...>
Date:Friday, May 4, 2007, 13:53
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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