Re: Piat (was: Another NatLang i like)

BP Jonsson wrote:

> This mapping seems awfully strange for a Central European language.  One
> would have expected /k/="k", /ts/="c", /dz/="z" for a language in that part
> of the world, especially in view of the fine one phoneme--one letter
> mapping that applies otherwise.
Exactly.  The inventor, one Dzozip Fyrac, had a great admiration
for Welsh and Romanian, and imported some of their orthographic
conventions.  There was also the desire to be different from their
neighbors.

When the orthography of Dutch was being nailed down, it was found that
the Dutch in the Netherlands preferred the spelling
"cultuur", to avoid being too German, whereas their neighbors in
Belgium preferred "kultuur", to avoid being too French.

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