Re: OT: Conorthography aesthetics (WAS: Re: Featural code based on ...

Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
>As for my own langs, Obrenje transliteration looks pretty
>clinical and utilitarian.  I'm very fond of the Jovian look
>though: Vowel digraphs, non-trivial yet non-grotesque featural
>coding, no |k|, |q| etc, extremely rare accent marks...  the
>same goes for Oro Mpaa, which has even more of an individual
>flavor, though its initial nasal+stop clusters might be an
>acquired taste.  ;-)

Montreiano prefers a typical ibero-romance way of doing the orthography.
It' snot particularly special, although certain spellings have a reason:

^ - circumflex accent represents a lost h before the vowel. This freed up
H to be used for the /h/ sound, which comes from foreign languages. I also
think it looks pretty.

ç - represents /ts/

y always represents a g which had become the glide /y/. It also has
function to break up strings of too many vowels, but keep pronunciations:
cavauyairo instead of cavauiairo, avoyao - lawyer (SP. abogado)

the grave accent represents two vowels of the same type that have come
together and formed a long vowel.


Saalangal on the other hand is a lot more regular. No unusual spellings,
although c = /tS/, and q = /?/. Borrowed words are Saalangalized:
democracy - demokrasi.