Re: Name mangling (Was: Re: First Sound Recording of Asha'ille!)

Christian Thalmann wrote:

>--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Johansson <andjo@F...> wrote:
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>>The _ñ_ has been in all along. I'm not terribly happy with it either
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>- it's the
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>>only diacritic'd letter, for a start - but the realistic alternative
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>>'k' or 'q' for [N], either of which seems overly perverse to me, not
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>to speak
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>>of 'kh' or 'qh' for [G~], or, horror of horrors, 'kc' or 'qc' for [Nk].
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>There's always 'ng'.  Not the prettiest of sights, but way
>preferable over 'ñ' IMHO.  [Nk] can just be written 'nc'.
>Even in Oro Mpaa, where everything else is extremely regular
>(albeit weirdly so), I write [Ng] as |nc| rather than |gc|.
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But what's wrong with an eng(IPA for [N])?  It's used, sometimes, and
it's not a diacritic.