> > Barbara Blithered;
> > I think that one of the ways one *might* spot a constructed language is
> > finding 2 or more letters (phonetically distinct) that are the same
> > phoneme and could have been represented by a single letter.
> John Jotted;
> Hepburn-style Japanese romanization has this property, as does practical
> Quechua orthography. We write "Mitsubishi" although phonemically it is
> "Mitubisi", and Quechua writes five vowels despite having only three
> vowel phonemes.
I sit corectted; it's they way in which one spots a writing or
transcription system designed by a linguist ;-)
Barbara