Re: Poll: What looks best?
| From: | John Vertical <johnvertical@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 6, 2007, 7:03 |
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On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 16:01:29 +0200, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
>The quest to replace H continueth! Here's a test-sentence:
>maHavvel H kanra Hāen oHamigh Hu khaHa Hetuaþ Heìes
>mařavvel ř kanra řāen ořamigh řu khařa řetuaþ řeìes
>maяavvel я kanra яāen oяamigh яu khaяa яetuaþ яeìes
>maħavvel ħ kanra ħāen oħamigh ħu khaħa ħetuaþ ħeìes
>maгavvel г kanra гāen oгamigh гu khaгa гetuaþ гeìes
>
>The letter in question marks a sound that starts off as a velar
>trill (or one of its many raspy replacements) and turns into an
>alveolar trill. It is always long/cannot be geminated and is the
>raspiest, spittiest sound in the entire language. (Incidentally,
>the test-sentence contains every single word using the letter H
>that I could find in the seconds I spent searching, that
>sentence is almost a tongue-twister...) Replace mentally with
>[kr] if the backs of your tongues do twist!
>
>So: Which. Will. Win!!?!!
>
>Feel free to add candidates of your own.
>
>
>t.
If I have the description of this sound right (the proper term is "velopharyngeal
trill" BTW - or "velarized uvular trill") I'd actually prefer to use a digraph. Your
page mentions that you use <x> for /x/, so <xr> would make sense. If that
happens to be a legal cluster, I vote to use <xř>... or maybe better yet, <xṛ>
(r with underdot) but that might be too rare a glyph for your needs.
John Vertical
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