Re: HELP: Hiksi Tone Spelling--ENTER AND WIN!!

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 20:08:30 -0400 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
> JS Bangs wrote:
> > The ultimate arbiter is my own aesthetic judgement, but elegance
counts
> > for a lot.  Diacritics, silent letters, and just about anything else
is
> > permissible except bringing in characters from other alphabets.  Have
fun!
>
> Can you tell us about the rest of the phonology?  Otherwise how will we
> know what silent letters can be used without fear of ambiguity?
Eh, sure.  I meant to do that, but forgot about it.

Since we're just concerned with orthography here, I won't get into a
complete discussion of the phonology, but just a list of the orthographic
conventions:

unused: b, c, d, j, r, v, x, z
Orthography more or less the same as IPA: /p t k f s h m n w a e o i u/
|g| = [N] (negotiable; I've considered the alternate |ñ| = [N], and if
you want to change this in your scheme go ahead)
|y| = [j]
|ao| = [Q] (negotiable)

Syllable structure is CV with nasal+stop, stop+/s/ and anything+glide as
valid onsets, plus any of the previous with a glide. No diphthongs or
coda consonants.

Jesse S. Bangs     Pelíran
jaspax@ juno.com   http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/
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