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Re: Script question and..

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Saturday, January 26, 2002, 21:22
Aidan Grey wrote:
> How many basic logographs are necessary, do you think? Any handy > thoughts on what they would mean. I mean, I can't imagine that "taxable > income" would have a logograph of its own,
If the language had a single word for "taxable income" I would imagine there might be a logograph. Generally speaking, words consisting of multiple morphemes will be represented by multiple characters, especially if the logographs are native to the language. In a case like Japanese, where the characters are not native to the language, there are many cases of multi-morphemic words represented by single characters, and of single-morpheme words represented by multiple characters.
> Anyone have any ideas about how to get from the protoform *LEDSA to the > final form _leis_?
Ledsa -> leedsa (lengthening of vowels before voiced consonants) Leedsa -> leesa (loss of syllable-final stops) Leesa -> Lees (loss of final -a) Lees -> Leis (ee -> ei) That's one way. :-)
> Anyone have better/other ideas?
The Common Kassi system was to combine charcters. To represent coda -s, one would write së (ë = /@/) underneath the character. Thus, _reis_ (CK had no /l/) would be represented by re-i-(little së underneath i). This is where the Classical Uatakassi coda diacritics came from. -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42