Re: Minza spelling reform

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@...>