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Re: Optimum number of symbols

From:And Rosta <a-rosta@...>
Date:Sunday, May 26, 2002, 15:58
Andreas Johansson
> And Rosta wrote: > >A similar argument could be made for languages with very > >large consonant inventories that arrange themselves into > >orderly grids of phonation/initiation + place + manner + > >secondary articulation (e.g. palatalization). That is, a > >writing scheme that to some extent decomposes individual > >segments might be both more manageable and more faithful to > >the phonological of the language. > > You needn't have a large consonant inventory for that. Surely any language > where, say, palatalization places a large part in phonology would be well > served by a writing system that takes a featural approach to that > phenomenon?
Yes. That was my point. --And.