Re: Ugly in ascii was: RE: Re: Introducing Paul Burgess...

| -----Original Message-----
| From: H. S. Teoh
| Subject: Re: Ugly in ascii was: RE: Re: Introducing Paul Burgess...
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| > In Tekwari, graves, accute/appostrophies, and commas can stack on
| > vowels, and tildes and graves can stack on consonants.
|
| Fascinating. Would it look something like... this?
|        http://quickfur.yi.org:8080/~hsteoh/conlang/tekwari.pdf
| ;-)
| T

        How very cool!
 Close, but not quite. I should have said "in the *ascii* rendition, graves,
accutes, and commas can stack." In the proper orthography, only accutes and
ogoneks would stack.

 The grave never actually appears in the "proper" orthography. What it actually
means is "use alternate form of this letter". This is from an older rendition
of my notes:
~~~
D` in unicode is an Eth, and is a voiced labiodental frictive
E` is written as a Schwa (backwards E in caps)
G` is written as a G-Breve (from Turkish) (or G-circumlfex), and is a voiced uvular frictive
I` is written as a dotted Ii, both cases (from Turkish)
I  is written as an undotted Ii, both cases (from Turkish)
J  is a palatal glide
L- is written as an L-slash (from Polish), and is an unvoiced lateral frictive
L` is written as an L-hachek (from Slovak), and is a voiced lateral frictive
N` is written as an Engma, both cases (from Pan-African alphabets, and Samoi)
R is a liquid, not a tap/tril. It is retroflexed after back vowels, and is
retroflexed when both word initial and before a back vowel
S` is written as an S-hachek, and is an unvoiced palatal frictive
T` is written as a Thorn, and is a voiced labiodental frictive
Z` is written as a Z-hachek, and is a voiced palatal frictive
~~~

 Since then, I've added c` for c-hachek and j` for j-hachek. (Yes, Tekwari has
a big phenome inventory.) One of my tasks is to see if it's symmetrical, and
possibly re-vamp it a touch.

 So, the only minor corrections are the c-grave in the full name should be
c-hachek (you guess right for the s and z), and the s in omo,'s`vt~a should be
an s-hachek.
        (I also think the full name should end in an engma. Two aspect markers are similar....)
 The tilde would be interresting over the hachek'ed letters. A s-hachek-tile
would be something like /aZja/.

        Otherwise, it's Oh So Cool! Thank you!


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