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Re: Consonant allophones in Minza

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 2, 2007, 17:39
Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...>:


> > The other thing is a writing issue: how to spell a sound > > that alternates between [G] and [j\], similar to what > > happens in Modern Greek. > > Clearly YOGH Ȝ ȝ \u021C \u021D which was similarly used in > Middle English -- the name of the letter itself was ȝoȝ.
As an aside, some webpages, notably parts of Wikipedia, uses yogh for the "Egyptian aleph". Early egyptologists, for some reason decided to transliterate the relevant Egyptian signs with what looks like two spiritus lenes one above the other, but font support for this is even worse than for yogh. Others simply substitute the numeral 3. Andreas