Re: Minza spelling reform

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Herman Miller <hmiller@I...> wrote:

>Well, in that case plain unaccented "q" seems like a reasonable
>alternative, or "x" if /x/ is spelled "h". I think it's a stretch
to
>use some accented letter other than "g", although "r" might be a
>possibility as you mentioned. I use "y" as a vowel (between i\ and
>u\), and accent marks on "j" have major problems in most fonts.
I don't like digraphs or diacritical marks, although it's not
possible
to completely avoid the latter. I had to use them for /ts)/ (s-
grave) and /dz)/ (z-grave).

For the palatal row I use the following:
c = /c/
g = /J\/
x = /C/
q = /j\/
h-bar = /j_0/
j (or yogh) = /j/

I'd like to use kra (I think that's the name) from the Greenlandic
alphabet for /c/ and use "c" for /ts)/, but then there's no grapheme
to go with it for /J\/ without using a diacritical mark.  Oh well!

Charlie
http://wiki.frath.net/user:caeruleancentaur

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