"gy" (was: more English orthography)

Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:

>Yes, that's also the system as I learned it. That's why I described Jarrda
>spelling as morphophonemic rather than phonemic. (by the way, I'm leaning
>toward "gy", as in "Magyar", to spell the [J\] sound, which would change
>the language's name to Gyarrda.)

Cool! I've decided to use <gy> and <cy> for [dZ] and [tS] in Biyuron
(long abandoned lang, now being resurrected) in some cases (<dy> and
<ty> for others, on rather obvious etymological reasons). In some
dialects, <cy gy hy> will be palatal instead (<hy> = [C]) and
contrast with the postalveolars <ty dy sy> (or <sh>, with written
form again based on etymological reasons) [tS dZ S]. I'm not sure
if palatals and postalveolars contrast enough (hint: natlang
examples?), especially since the language doesn't have a terribly
rich phonology.


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