Re: THEORY Ideal system of writing
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 9, 2004, 21:32 |
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On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 14:31:25 -0600, Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...>
wrote:
> What about a demisyllabic system which has one set of characters for
> syllable onsets, and another for syllable rhymes? You'd need fewer
> characters than for a fully fledged syllabary, but more than for an
> alphabet. Hmong has such a system with 60 onsets and 104 rhymes
> (including tonal information); at 164 symbols that is squarely within
> Y. R. Chao's preferred range.
Yeah. Okay. Sounds good. I'm trying to start to think of a first
approximation of the list of onsets in English.
0-
b-
bl-
br-
bj-
tS-
tSj-
and so on. I think I'll take it off-line. It'll be much less messy that
way.
One quick question: I *think* the common -j- element that looks like it's
going to crop up a lot is largely (only?) associated with /u(:)/ in the
peak/coda. Is it best dealt with from a practical standpoint as a feature
of the latter?
Paul
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