Re: German style orthography

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 19:15:53 -0800, bob thornton <arcanesock@...> wrote:

>I am making a language supposedly discovered in the
>late 1800's by Germans on an island south of the
>island Mafia on the coast of Tanzania. It includes
>"whistlized" consonants, where labialization was taken
>to such a degree that the w-sound is now a whistle, a
>voiced whistle in the case of a voiced "whistlized"
>consonant.
Here's my try for a German-style orthography of the language Tüësë:

(plosives)
/p/   p
/b/   b
/t/   t
/d/   d
/k/   k
/g/   g
/q/   q
(nasals)
/m/   m
/n/   n
/N/   ng
(fricatives)
/P/   f
/B/   w
/T/   þ
/D/   Ä‘
/s/   s
/s_m/ sh
/z/   Å¿
/z_m/ Å¿h
/C/   ch
/j\/  jh
/x/   χ
/X/   ħ
/h/   h
(laterals)
/l/   l
/L/   Å‚
(approximate)
/j/   j
(rhotic)
/rR\)/ (This is a simultaneous r and R\... it is fun
to pronounce.)  r
(affricatives)
/tT)/   tþ
/dD)/   dđ
/ts)/   z
/dz)/   ds
/tC)/   tch
/dj\)/  dj
/kx)/   kχ
/qX)/   qħ
("whistlized")
/s_m_W/ (_W represents "whistlization") schü
/z_m_W/ shü
/C_W/   chü
/j\_W/  jü
/x_W/   chü
/t_W/   tü
/d_W/   dü
/k_W/   kü
/g_W/   gü

Vowels are:

/i/  ie
/I/  i
/e/  e
/&/  ä
/@/  ë
/u/  u
/O/  o
/A/  a

gryəsː
j. 'mach' wust

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