Re: Roman syllabary goes alphanumerical ...

At 12:28 pm -0400 21/5/01, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>I don't for the moment have the inspiration nor time to device my own "roman
>syllabary". But I thought I'd add another idea to the melting pot: Since a
>main problem in a such project is the low number of the roman letters, add
>some more symbols by including the arabic numbers. Eg, {2} may indicate
>/tu/, for obvious reasons - other characters may require a little more
>thinking!. For good measure, let /tu/ be the word for "two"! in the relevant
>conlang ...
I had thought of this and have, in fact, suggested 9 = /nu/  :)

But in all fora where I've made this suggestion, the "Romano-Arabic
alphanumeric syllabary" has not so far met with a favorable response.

However, now X-SAMPA has accusomed us to alphanumeric notation for phones &
phonemes, perhaps the idea of mixing traditional western Arabic numerals
with Roman letters in a writing system may not seem quite so bizarre.

Ray.

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