Re: Orthography of palatalized consonants

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"?

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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