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Re: YAC: Widse -- a conlang based on Ygyde

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 28, 2003, 15:45
En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

> > Perhaps we should be making an orthography for some Khoisan language > using > the later (16-character) Futhark.
LOL. I have a bit of the same system in Maggel, with an alphabet of 17 letters for a language with 90-odd phonemes ;)) . I've always thought there's a grave
> shortage of tetragraphs in natlangs. >
LOL!!! ;)))) Maggel has only a few regular ones, like |ilth| for [K\_j] (but that one is analysable) and |hoir| for final [x] (and this one is unanalysable ;)) ). But it has plenty of trigraphs (like |bgi| after a short vowel to make it into a diphtongue ending in [I], or |gft| for final [N], or |hfh| for [w], or |jbh| for [C]). And if you don't mind analysable polygraphs (but you probably didn't mind |ilth| ;)) ), I can easily have a pentagraph like |zilth| or |izlth|, both pronounced [K\_j*], i.e. tensed (in the Maggelish sense) palatalised voiced lateral fricative. Now that's a monster! ;))) Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.