Re: Poll: What looks best?

* John Vertical said on 2007-07-06 09:03:14 +0200
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 16:01:29 +0200, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> > maHavvel H kanra Hāen oHamigh Hu khaHa Hetuaþ Heìes
> >
> > 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 /./
>
> If I have the description of this sound right (the proper term
> is "velopharyngeal trill" BTW - or "velarized uvular trill")
That'd be a wrong guess :)

> I'd actually prefer to use a digraph.
It *is* a double sound, yes. The first part varies with dialect,
the second part does not, though there are people that *do*
replace the entire kaboodle with a velarized/pharyngealized
trill but that's *most* improper and foreign.

> Your page mentions that you use <x> for /x/, so <xr> would
> make sense. If that happens to be a legal cluster,
Might be, though sandhi would probably force it to be pronounced
H... clusters with H all become H for the same reason. It's a
black hole consonant, conquering all in its path.

> I vote to use <xř>... or maybe better yet, <xṛ> (r with
> underdot) but that might be too rare a glyph for your needs.
I've thought of using {ʀr} however.


t., who had an annoying time finding a font capable of showing
all the candidate H's at the same time (in monospace)