Re: Orthography of palatalized consonants

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:24:26 +0100, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:41:51 -0500, Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> wrote:
>> A common writing for palatized "n" is "nj". Based on this, the Ipa uses a
>> superscript "j" to indicate palatization. Following this, you could simply
>> put a "j" after the palatized letters:
>>
>> tj, dj, sj, zj, lj, nj
>>
>> This way, you wouldn't have to use any digraphs.
>
>You seem to have a different meaning of "digraph" :) For me, it's "a
>sequence of two letters used to express one sound", which is exactly
>what you propose: writing, say, "tj" (two letters) for [t_j] (one
>sound).
>
>Or perhaps you meant "diacritics"?
Yes, I did...
so what he actually wants is the opposite, exchanging the two-letter
combinations with signs above/below the letter, isn't it?

Well, I would add a hook below pointing to the left, as has been done with
the palatal "n" already.
A cedille, as with the palatal fricative, is a bad idea, since that's
already used in French to signify the "c" is pronounced like "s".

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