Re: Romaji as syllabary

On Thursday, February 24, 2005, at 02:47 , Jeffrey Jones wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:27:35 -0500, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
> wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ph. D." <phild@...>
>>
>>> I think he meant it as a syllabary for a conlang.
>>>
>>> See the auxlang BABM,
>>
>> And, of course, Ray Brown's briefscripts.
Yes, you do well to have briefscripts plural  :)

If you have read the latest published version on my website, it looks as
tho I have at last decided on a definite solution. but i am currently
working on the morphology, and I am realizing there are some weakness in
the scheme I suggested for Bax (I've also noticed some typos :)

So keep watching.

BTW I also refer on on the page on Roman letters used as a syllabary, to
one suggested by Dirk Elzinga way back in 1999.

>> Paul
>
> I also use the alphabet as syllabary, in 'Yemls:
>
> Syllabary to Romanization:
>   {A}   ga, go
[etc - snipped]

>   {Z}   za, zo
>   {z}   zu, zw, z
>
> The romanization is more or less phonemic, with |y| = /j/, |q| = /Z/, |x|
>  =
> /S/, |c| = /tS/, |j| = /dZ/, |h| = /x/.
Interesting - of course using upper case as well as lower case gives more
scope. So far I have resisted using mixed case systems as one of the ideas
behind a briefscript is that it should be quick to write. having to keep
using the shift key will slow things down a bit. I have often wondered,
however, if the digit symbols could be included. If they were pronounced
as single syllables it would not seem inappropriate. The modern practice
of text-messaging seems to indicate that people do not feel the mix of
alphanumeric symbols to be incongruous - in fact it seems gr8.

Ray
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