Re: Minza spelling reform

>Paul Bennett  wrote:
> > Isn't there a g with a bar through the descender?
>
>Something like this, you mean?
>http://www.eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?search=g+with+stroke
>
>Also used only in Skolt Sámi, to the best of that database's knowledge.
>--
>Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skolt_Sami , the language uses
g-caron for /J\/ and g-stroke for /G/.
By the way, have a good look at what the wikipedia article says about the
phonology. Contrasting /c J\/ with /tS dZ/ is a first for me - and the vowel
system is simply batshit insane: there's EIGHT central vowels alone,
apparently all with contrastive lenght! And here I thought Germanic systems
were byzantine.

Also, what's the fixation on expressing /G/ as some variant of <g>? There's
plenty of other letters too. "Backed /j\/" is equally valid as a description
- I could imagine using something like y-circumflex or j-stroke. "Voiced
/x/" would work too, except I'm not sure if there are any diacritics that
convey voicedness. Then there's "unrounded /w/" - maybe with a macron... and
finally, at a stretch, "velar /R/": maybe r-acute...?

Yes, I know most of these aren't common symbols. I'm just brainstorming.

AFMCL - in uwjge, I have no palatals at all, so I simply assigned <j> for
[M\] / [G] (soft allophones of /g/).

John Vertical

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