Re: USAGE: [CONLANG] A BrSc a? & Nyuu Romaji

En réponse à Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>:

>
> It doesn't - it's very irregular, I believe.  My understanding is that
> it's
> at least as irregular as Maggel, and possibly more so.
>
Then I'll have to make Maggel's orthography worse :)) . It's not that
difficult, I left a few holes here and there to allow for very irregular
polygraphs :)) .

But I have a feature in Maggel's orthography I doubt is present in Burmese: in
Maggel sometimes a letter is read twice, once as letter and once as part of a
digraph. I explain myself on a simple example: |gif| is pronounced ['gaIv].
Well, [aI] for |i| is a regular pronunciation. But [v] for |f| isn't (you'd
expect [f]). Yet [v] is normally spelled |if|, so it's as if |i| was used
twice! Yet there are other cases where this doesn't happen, like in |biirh|
['bIxj] where the trigraph |irh| representing [xj] is separated from the
vocalic |i| here pronounced [I]. And there are plenty of cases where in |if|
|i| has its vocalic value and |f| is thus pronounced [f]! And think that those
are only regular spellings :)) .

Christophe.

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