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Re: THEORY Ideal system of writing

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Monday, August 9, 2004, 21:32
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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