need help: Latin phonemic (not phonetic) script...

Well I was originally opposed to such an idea, but since it's more
realistic, I've decided to go ahead and make Latin one of the two
standard scripts for Tech, the other one being Ethiopic. (I already have
Latin for the languages of my Elves and Orcs.)

As some of you know, Tech is to have a large number of consonant
phonemes, and I have a Latinization system in mind that's not restricted
to ASCII or even Latin-1. Right now, I'm limiting myself to Latin-1 and
Latin Extended-A (which contains all the characters needed for almost all
the languages of Europe which use Latin including Maltese, Turkish and
Esperanto -- Vietnamese is accomodated in another extended range). But I
might and probably will include a few Greek letters, especially gamma for
the voiced uvular stop/fricative and lambda for the voiceless lateral
fricative.

Note: I posted Tech consonant phonology a while back, but I'll repost if
y'all or any of y'all really want to know...

Also, the number of vowels is comparatively low: seven to ten, give or
take. Allophonically there may be long-short distinction, nasalization
and umlaut (which may gain phonemic status in the most latent, developed
stage of language development). I'm also leaning toward a tone-based
accent system along the lines of Greek or Lithuanian (three or four tones
max).

The natlang model I have is that used in North Caucasian languages like
Chechen, which has recently adopted the Latin alphabet in place of
Cyrillic. (This is why I was delighted to find a document on
Georgian-alphabet rendering of Caucasian langauges.) At least I know for
sure I'll use caron-topped letters  for certain affricates (basically
where Esperanto has circumflexes).

For the record, the points of articulation of *fortis* consonants are
labial, dental, alveolar (inc. sibilants), retroflex, palatal (inc.
shibilants), lateral (inc. tlibilants), velar, uvular, pharyngeal and
glottal. A three-way system of stops/affricates (voiced/voiceless
aspirate/voiced ejective; just like Georgian) is prominent.

Daniel A. Wier
Lufkin, Texas
http://homestead.juno.com/dawier/
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