Re: Minza spelling reform

John Vertical wrote:

> According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skolt_Sami , the language uses
> g-caron for /J\/ and g-stroke for /G/.
Actually, it does seem useful to have g-caron and k-caron for /J\/, /c/.
I don't really like the g-stroke character, though (especially in a font
with a loop for the descender of the 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.
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.