Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Minza spelling reform

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Thursday, January 26, 2006, 15:06
On 1/26/06, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> Semiticists and Indologists generally use g with a dot > above and Germanicists use g with a line through the descender, while > Turkicists use g-breve and Mongolianists gamma.
FWIW, Maltese għ-digraph also represented [G], and I'm told it may still be pronounced that way in some rural areas. (In standard Maltese, it's now not pronounced as a consonant but affects the length and/or quality of the neighbouring vowels, perhaps a bit like Turkish ğ.) (Maltese għajn derives from both Arabic ghayn [G] and `ayn [?\], which fell together into one phoneme in Maltese.) But the digraph may not be attractive. -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>