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Re: A Conlang, created by the group?

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Friday, October 9, 1998, 4:29
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998 00:36:19 -0500, Carlos Thompson
<cthompso@...> wrote:

>The easy part done. we have c, h, q and x for /x/, /G/, /q/ and a =
voiced
>uvular stop. Let's asign the most obvious: h for /x/ (actually [x] or =
[h]),
>and then >c for voiceless uvular stop >x for voiced uvular stop >q for voiced velar or uvular fricative. > >I don't like this finnal solution very much... I guess those are the >trickiest letters Latin/English alphabet has. Maybe redone: >c for voiced velar or uvual fricative /G/ >q for voiceless uvual stop /q/ >x for voiced uvular stop
Hmmmmm.... the rest sounds fine, but I'm not so sure about this. Q for = /q/ makes sense. I think I'd prefer to swap "c" and "x", though. "X" just = seems like more of a fricative-ish letter to me than "c".