Re: ASCIIifying

On Mon, 5 May 2003 22:07:22 -0700 Joe Fatula <fatula3@...>
writes:
> I need some suggestions for some ASCIIification of one of my
> conlangs,
> Razdiat.  Classical Razdiat underwent a number of vowel changes
> (like umlaut
> in the Germanic languages), represented by some letters in the
> orthography
> that are a little difficult to write.
>
> The core vowels are |a|, |e|, |i|, |o|, and |u|.  Both |a| and |o|
> can be
> e-shifted, being written as ligatures: |æ| and the o-e ligature.
> And |a|
> can also be o-shifted, written as |a| with an |o| over it, the
> a-ring from
> Danish.
>
> But to make matters worse, any vowel can be marked for stress with
> an acute
> accent, and any vowel can be velarized, marked with an underdot.
> There are
> a few words with a-ring-acute-underdot and similar characters.  In
> my
> printed materials (thanks to some Unicode help from you guys), I'm
> having no
> trouble writing these.
>
> But how do I ASCIIify them?  (And have them still look decent...)
does this language have <ae>, <oe>, and <ao>? if not, how about:
       acute underdot acute+underdot
a: a     a'     .a        .a'
e: e     e'     .e        .e'
i: i     i'     .i        .i'
o: o     o'     .o        .o'
u: u     u'     .u        .u'
æ: ae    ae'    .ae       .ae'
œ: oe    oe'    .oe       .oe'
å: ao    ao'    .ao       .ao'

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