Re: Steg's Hebrew Romanization

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)

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