Re: proto-romance questions
| From: | Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 16, 1999, 1:20 |
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> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU]On
> Behalf Of J. Barefoot
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 6:16 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG
> Subject: proto-romance questions
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> vowels: i {iota} u {omega}
> e {eta} o {omicron}
> a {alpha}
Why not epsilon for /e/? I'm not sure when your language adopted Greek
orthography, but nowadays eta is /i/. Also, how about omicron upsilon for
/u/? I know the Coptic alphabet does that, as does modern Greek. Just my two
cents :)