Re: Yogh (was Re: y sound)

From: "Isaac Penzev" <isaacp@...>

> Unfortunately, there are no Ru-International keyboards, at least for MS
Windows
> :-( On the other hand, you can find rich resources for support of ex-USSR
> languages at Esa Anttikoski's site www.peoples.org.ru It has free fonts
and
> keyboard drivers. Re Circassian: type from Ru, use 1 instead of palochka,
then
> substitute it either with real palochka, or with capital Latin "i" (advice
from
> Zihia site).
That's a neat website. I looked at fonts, and it had pictures of various
extra letters. I found one in one of the "Paleoasian" languages which was
the letter L with a tail on the right leg curving to the left. If this is
what I think it is -- the velar lateral -- then I'd propose an alternative
symbol for the same in IPA: a letter called "leng". The left-curving
downward extension is along the lines of eng; it's also the lateral nasal
symbol reversed. (Small-capital L then could be a uvular nasal, if such a
thing even exists outside the imaginagion...)

But if I'm reading a Caucasian language (other than Abkhaz, and Chechen now
that it's using Latin), I keep wanting to read palochka as the vowel /i/.
I'm used to using/seeing dots and apostrophes for glottalization...

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