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Re: Steg's Hebrew Romanization

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Sunday, December 27, 1998, 20:20
On Sun, 27 Dec 1998 19:13:34 +0000 "BP.Jonsson" <bpj@...> writes:
>My rendering of the Irano-Aramaic alphabet: >A B G D E W Z H @ Y K L M N S O P $ Q R C T >a b g d w z h y k l m n s o p j r c t
[interesting intricacies of iranian writing]
>and context normally disambiguates between w/o and n. As you may have >guessed my choice of @ for Teth is because of graphic similarity to >the >hebrew and Aramaic glyphs for the letter.
>> shva na` = E (i considered making it @, like ASCII-IPA, but the >@-symbol >> just looks too big to me to represent the sound. If my emailprogram >and >> conlanglist could understand eachother's accented-characters i would >> probably use something like an E with a fallingaccent) > >Why not use ^ ? It's tiny and it is similar to the IPA character for >the >british vowel in _but_.
hmm...._l^dabeir_..._om^rim_....i don't know, i think i prefer to use letters instead of other characters....it helps people reading it to figure out what it sounds like. The only non-alphabetic letter that i've occasionally used to transliterate hebrew is the _'_ (it probably didn't come out properly), that paragraph-marking symbol that looks like two S's intertwined. I used to use it once in a while for _shin_, since the double-S reminds me of "sh". The same figure happens to be the Rokbeigalmki character for the vowel [E@] / [e@], though.
>> Although, i've been having a problem lately trying to decide whether >to >> keep putting H at the end of qamatz-hei words, or drop it since it's >not >> "really" there (only putting it when there's a mapiq). > >Why not use @ when there is no mapiq? I use it for the occasional >ta-marbuta in modern Persian -- I don't really know modern Persian, >but >Iranian and early western scholars often put Perso-Arabic glosses into >the >Pahlavi MSS!
Hmm..._isha@_ / _ishah_..... i have the same problem as before, i just can't get used to using nonalphabetic characters to represent sounds. ohwell... -Stephen (Steg) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]