Re: Schwa vowel, which letter?

At 5:09 pm +0000 17/10/98, charles wrote:
>Raymond A. Brown wrote:
.....
>> For what it's worth, 'briefscript' has long been settled with seven vowels:
>> a, e, i, o, u, y, w.   At the moment {r} is trying to work its way in as an
>> eighth  :)
>
>Then R drags in its friend L, then S and SH, ...
No.  Both L and S are needed as consonants, and consonants they are
staying.  As for SH, that is _two_ letters; briefscript will definitely not
have any digraphs.   The sound [S] will probably be spelt X, tho J is a
just a possibility.

R is trying to join the vowels because I do not intend to distinguish /l/
and /r/ in the inventory of consonants; and when I tried to get R to
represent /lw/ it wasn't too happy  :)

>I've been avoiding diphthongs, but using just A I U
>one can generate AI IA AU UA UI IU for 9 total.
>Or using Y W as glides, 15 or 30 more.
Yes, but don't the Is and Us in your six diphthongs already constitute
semi-vocalic glides?

>So I'll stop at the standard 7 vowels, W included.
Seems reasonable.

Ray.