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Re: Orthography of palatalized consonants

From:kcasada <kcasada@...>
Date:Friday, January 14, 2005, 14:05
Somebody please correct me if I goof on this, but as I recall, palatalized /n/
in medieval Spanish was represented by "nn" which is still used today in some
formats where you can't use the modern {enye}, AKA the n with the squiggly
line above it! I recall a quite detailed discussion on one list of which
European language's orthography should be adopted to represent this sound! I
use the "nn" a lot in emails.
Krista
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>Hi, > >Just getting back into conlanging after a bit of a break. I am reworking >emindahken's orthography so it uses no digraphs. I have a series of >palatalized consonants, and was thinking of using letter-plus-cedilla >to represent them. Is this done in any natlang or standard >transliteration >scheme? If not, what is the common way to represent palatalization with >one symbol? (Besides using the IPA symbol). > >The consonants in question >t >d >s >z >l >n > >Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. > >James W.