Re: OT: Orthographic challenges
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 5, 2007, 14:10 |
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taliesin the storyteller skrev:
> * taliesin the storyteller said on 2007-07-03
> 16:27:20 +0200
>> One letter is already used in both upppercase and
>> lowercase. {h} the glottal fricative/approximant is not
>> the same letter or sound as {H} the affricate /r/. {h} is
>> something of a problem itself, being ambiguous today.
>
> Thanks to Babelmap I've been looking at possible
> replacements for uppercase H: гяřħ (gamma, ja, r
> hachek, slashed
> h). I'll have to make some test-sentences to see what
> works best I think. Stay tuned.
I'd recommend Һ \u04BA CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHHA and
ordinary h as one upper/lower case pair and ordinary H
and ʜ \u029C LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL H as another,
causing least possible discontinuity compared to your
current transcription. Too bad only that CYRILLIC CAPITAL
LETTER SHHA is insufficiently distinct from lower case h
in some fonts.
What about Ʀʀ as a distinct pair from Rr and Hh for the
affricate? Nobody really knows what Common Scandinavian
"Ʀʀ" really was anyway, though I bet on /r\/. "Γr"
against "Rʀ" and "Hʜ" is tempting... я as a rhotic is
just plain wrong. Sorry for that. If and only if you use
š and/or ž ř may be a good choice.
/BP
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