Quoting John Vertical <johnvertical@...>:
> >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/).
In my Kalini Sapak, /G/ is written |j|.
Andreas