the glottal stop as {q}

At 14:50 23.4.2000 +0100, Raymond Brown wrote:

>Maltese, which writes the glottal stop as <q>,
I read the other day that Somali also uses that mapping, as well as {x} for
voiceless pharyngeal fricative and {c} for the voiced one (ayn).  Oddly I
feel that these mappings would be cool for a conlang but rub the wrong way
for a serious natlang orthography!

Anyway, what would you think about using:

{q} for glottal stop
{x} for voiceless pharyngeal fricative
{c} for voiced pharyngeal fricative
{h} for voiceless glottal fricative
{j} for voiced palatal fricative ({jj} in coda)
{hj} for voiceless palatal fricative
{xj} for voiceless velar fricative
{cj} for voiced velar fricative
{sj} and {zj} for palatoalveolar fricatives.

Comments?




/BP

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