Re: Idea for Roman orthography.

--- Steven Williams <feurieaux@...> wrote:

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> but without using clunky diagraphs or an excess of
> accent marks.
Suppose you had 5 consonants and three vowels and
declared that every sound is represented by a digraph?
Then Digraphs wouldn't be "clunky", they'd be the
norm.  You could have 5 X 5 = 25 consonant sounds and
3 X 3 = 9 vowel sounds. Or up it to 6 consonants and 4
vowels for up to 36 consonant sounds an up to 16 vowel
sounds.

There would be no ambiguities because all words would
be an even number of letters long and could only be
divided into digraphs in one way.

ex: Ai rhaikk dhue ghoe phiishiihg. Dhue eeue?

--gary

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