Re: Phoneme system for my still-unnamed "Language X"

Hi!

Schnecki writes:
>...
> *grin* I'm German, I can't help associating the letter <j> with the
> sound [j]. ...
Same preference here. :-)

> As for the <y>, I wanted a "simple" yet "real" letter for /@/ (i.e. no
> weird diacritics and no stopgap non-alphabetic characters such as the
> apostrophe). ...
I've done the same in Qthyn|gai (so there's a schwa in the first
syllable). :-)

Originally, I wrote the four vowel phonemes /a i u @/ as <a i u e>,
but then I decided that at some time in the future, I want to use <e>
and <o> for allophones of /i/ and /u/.  It's not implemented in Lisp
yet, but planned.  Anyway, that's why I used <y> for /@/.

Some (Latin script) natlang does this, I think, but I forgot which
one. :-(

In Tyl Sjok, I have <w> for /3/, which is quite close to /@/, of
course.  <y> is for /1/ there (now that's boring!).

**Henrik

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