Re: Consonant allophones in Minza
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 28, 2007, 14:30 |
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On 9/28/07, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> In a conlang sketch, I once used
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> |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.
And since /M/ is the value of Turkish dotless-i (AFAIK), you could
think of the second dot in |ï| "cancelling out" the first one,
resulting in a dotless-i, for which /M/ is an accepted pronunciation.
IYSWIM.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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