Re: Alphabet
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 2, 2001, 4:04 |
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John Laury wrote:
> I've realized
> that (at least to my own knowledge) no writing systems
> in existence actually do that.
Japanese does! Well, not the nasal part, but Japanese kana has a
diacritic that indicates voicing. Thus, "ka" plus that diacritic makes
"ga". The "h" series becomes "b" with the voicing mark, but that's
because in Old Japanese, what is now "h" was /p/. They've since
invented another diacritic, traditionally called the "half-voiced mark"
to show "p" from "h".
Korean hangul is also based on phonetic principles, but I don't know
much of the details. Yoon Ha would probably know more.
> I see a lot of people discussing ways to write their
> languages using Roman letters. Do most people here
> tend to create new alphabets or do they stick to
> established writing systems?
I use romanization. I have a syllabry, but it's not used much.
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