Re: Caucasian phonologies and orthographies

Merhaba!

Danny Wier sent me the inventory of Abkhaz, and I thought it might be
interesting to make a romanization scheme for it. I've left out the things
that are the same in X-Sampa (if anyone wants the whole inventory, tell me
and I'll forward the list).

Labialized consonants are followed by <w>, palatalized consonants are
followed by <y>, and ejective consonants are followed by <'>, same old
thing.

Postalveolar sibilants: dy ty t'y zy sy
Uvulars: q' qh x
Pharyngeals: h hw
Labiopalatal semivowel: j
Vowels: e a

Why is there no non-ejective uvular stop?

--Trebor

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