Re: My Script

Barry Garcia wrote:
> Well, as i mentioned, the
> Jakautdok script doesn't represent accents and glottal stops, so there =
is
> one peculiarity :) LOL.
I'm torn on whether to include stress in W.'s native orthography.  On
the other hand, there are two characters each for /k/, /i/, /u/ and
/a/.  In addition, there's a silent letter.  These are descended from
Old Kass=ED characters for k/q (k), i/e (i), u/o (u), a/e"(a) [e" =3D /@/=
],
the silent letter originally meant /h/.  These are used randomly, in
other words, /i/ may be written with the old {e} or {i} by whim,
regardless of whether it's descended from /i/ or /e, indeed, the exact
same word my contain either one.  There are conventional spellings, but
they are peculiar to each village, and with no relation to the original
spelling (due to a long period of random usage followed by a period of
conventionalization).  {h} is used completely randomly, but one
consistent convention (at least in the Prophetess' village, which formed
the basis of Standard Watakass=ED - indeed, even that name) is that it's
always placed at the beginning of any word starting with a vowel.  In
the far west, some dialects have recreated the phonemes /e/ and /o/ by
dropping syllable-final fricatives (in most dialects they are allophones
of /i/ and /u/ occurring in closed syllables).  The {h} is used for
this, thus {ih}/{eh} =3D /e/, while plain {i}/{e} =3D /i/, same with
{uh}/{oh} and {u}/{o}.

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