Re: orthographical question.

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.

I once did a sketch for a conlang in which /s/ and /t/ were palatalised before
/i/, or at the end of a word.  Word-initially and word-medially, [S] and [tS]
were written "s(i)" and "t(i)", and word-finally they were written "sj" and
"tj":

  /Sim/  "sim"
  /Sam/   "siam"
  /kaSu/  "kasiu"
  /kaS/  "kasj"

Matt.

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