Re: Conorthography (phonology)

On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 03:17:12PM +0100, Mangiat wrote:
> The problems come with /ts/ and /dz/. They're not allophones: panza /pantsa/
> and ranza /randza/ show this alternance. Locatelli, in his Vocabulary and in
> his 'Piccola Grammatica del Dialetto Comasco' decided to write /ts/ with <z>
> and /dz/ with <z acute> (the Polish letter), whereas he used <s> for /s/ and
> <s acute> for /z/. The inconvenient is that this system, a very good one,
> uses two letters no typewriter here around used to have and which costantly
> lack in every normal computer. My idea is this:
>
> /ts/ rendered as <zz> when intervocalic (as we used <ss> for intervocalic
> /s/) and as <tz> if in a cluster.
> /dz/ rendered as <z> everywhere.
That seems like a perfectly good idea to me. Another solution would be the
one used in medieval Spanish, Portuguese, and French: use <z> for /dz/ and
<(c-cedilla)> for /ts/.

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo