Re: orthographical question.
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 29, 2001, 21:24 |
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, J Matthew Pearson wrote:
> Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>
> > I have a little difficulty here with the Dalmatian orthography. How to
> > represent /S/ and /tS/ where the [i] following is not syllabic?
> >
> > As I have it now, /Sta:lu/ is written [scitalu]. Also in suffices it will
> > happen that there's an -i- there which isn't pronounced hardly, let alone
> > syllabic...
>
> This solution is not very Romance-like (Romantic?), but how about using a
> "j"? So /Sta:lu/ would be "scjtalu" or some such.
>
Hm; /j/ is already in use to represent [Z].
/h/ on the other hand is hardly used, but how stupid would it look to
retain the German /sch/ in an Italian-inspired orthography and have
/schtalu/. I also think that that isn't reasonable because the whole point
of changing the orthography was to forget the days of evil Austria...
-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy
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