Re: Consonant allophones in Minza

Hi!

Herman Miller writes:
> For the vowels, it's tempting to use a diacritic for all front vowels:
>
> Front: ï ë ä ö ü
> Back:  ı e a o u
>...
In a conlang sketch, I once used

    |a e i o u| for /a e i o u/ (/a/ as more like [A]),
and |ä ë ï ö ü| for /& V M 2 y/.

Maybe it would be an option for you?  This way, you have the diaeresis
as a 'swap front-back' diacritic and still retain the standard values
for the unmarked vowels.  Furthermore, only |ë| and |ï| are lightly
off-standard.

Or how about using Cyrillic/Greek letters?  Maybe gamma for [G j\]?
By this, you get rid of diacritics *and* digraphs.  Actually, a revision
of the above mentioned sketch does exactly that:

http://www.kunstsprachen.de/s11/s_02.html#01

Maybe an overview of Unicode characters in Latin/Greek/Cyrillc might
help?  I started to compose one for comparison, to see what characters
are likely to look different when mixing alphabets.  It's still
unfinished, but maybe it's still useful:

http://www.kunstsprachen.de/lgc.html

**Henrik

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