Re: Orthography of palatalized consonants

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:51:15 -0600, James W. <emindahken@...> wrote:

>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.
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.

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