Re: Orthography of palatalized consonants
| From: | caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 15, 2005, 16:51 |
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--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "James W." <emindahken@F...> wrote:
>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).
In Senyecan virtually all the consonants can be palatalized or
labialized. My word processing program is Wordperfect5 (I know, I
know!!). I wanted to used a cedilla for palatalization (or an
apostrophe on top if a descender made the cedilla impossible) and a
breve or hachek over or under for labialization. I could print these
but I could not see them on the screen, so I finally resorted to
digraphs, although I don't like them. I now use ï for
palatalization
and ö for labialization. Someday, when I have my own publishing
house, or a more advanced computer program, I will return to
diacritics.
By the way, did you know that there is a dotless "j" also? You might
like the looks of that.
Charlie
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