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From:Remi Villatel <maxilys@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 5, 2006, 17:01
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 13:38, Carsten Becker wrote:

> >> Just for fun I also drew an ornamental syllabary: > >> http://home.tele2.fr/mxls/images/bli/syllabary.png
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> *Very* nice :-) I only cannot write my name in because it lacks n, m and > ng. Why?
That's because /BlitayI/ is meant to write Shaquelingua, not English nor any earthling language.
> Is the system extendable? Could one use diagraphs to write nasal (and > other) consonants?
All the shaquean consonants are here, why should I need more? The rules to transcribe names aren't definitive (nor written) yet but I think the way a Shaquean would mispronounce your first name would be: KarhçāY [k_hax.C3H] KaraçtāY [k_haXa.Ct3H] (If you insist on keeping all your consonants.) (I estimated your pronunciation of "Carsten" not too far from [kax.St@n] since you used to have a german email.)
> Have you thought about sending this to Omniglot?
Of course, I'd like to see all the shaquean scripts on Omniglot but I first need to fix the grammar so that the sentences in the example aren't too incorrect... and to have something pretty to link from Omniglot. ja tusi tō klava, [ja: tusi tO k4ava] (There will be another day.) -- ================== Remi Villatel maxilys_@_tele2.fr ==================

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