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Re: New Orthography & Phonology Online

From:Daniel A. Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 26, 1999, 21:01
Theodore wrote:

>While I'm mulling over the next phase of work on Abibin, and the >comments I got, I've put a little more effort into Agryziexabeiuie. >It's at the URL below, if you're interested... > >http://netjunk.com/users/conlang/conlang2.htm
Hey, I love what you done with the script! It also reminded me a little of Avestan and Malayalam. Another thing -- you have a labiodental nasal as a phoneme (or do you?). Great idea; I haven't seen it in any natlang or conlang, and it may not even appear in my conlang, and it has a ton of consonants. (I'll work it in somehow; it'll be transliterated as underlined m, or mm or mh, depending on the latinization scheme. It's written natively as the m-series fidel in Ge'ez, with a small horizontal bar connecting the two loops at the bottom (they're of course naturally connected at the top. This same tick mark indicates alveolarism in r, l and n, and might have other uses as well.) Come to think of it, I'm again considering a completely original alphabet either in lieu of or in addition to the traditional Ge'ez syllabry, since I don't know how to mark things like long/nasal/laryngealized vowels and consonant mutation. But the Ge'ez script is working out rather well, better than what I was able to come up with using Arabic or Roman, and especially a modified Coptic script, which got really messy (I tried to add Hebrew characters and a bunch of diacritics). If I do invent a Tech script, I want capitals and lower-case, and it'll be ultimately based on Greek-Coptic, with possible Latin, Cyrillic, Georgian and Armenian influence. Danny ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com