Re: Tirehlat romanization

Since I'm a certified Romanization/script conversion nut I had to have a
second go at this...

It just happens that I have a thing against +h digraphs which do not
indicate aspiration or voiceless sonorants but as, it seems, Tirehlat
doesn't have a /h/ +h seems usable as a uniform diacritic

     Consonants                                      post-
                 bilabial    dental      alveolar    alveolar    velar
     stop        p     b     t     d                             k     g
     affricate                           c     j     ch    jh
     nasal             m           n                             (mh)*
     trill                               rh    r
     fricative   f     v     th    dh    s     z     sh    zh    kh    gh
     lat.  fric.                         lh    l

Speaking in its favor is that +h could alternate with capitalization, which
in turn might simplify the character layout in your Velika font: sounds
which are mapped to letter+h in Romanization could be mapped to the
corresponding UpperCase letter in the Velika font -- e.g. /ts/ is mapped to
{c}, /tS/ is mapped to {C}; /K\/ is mapped to {l}, /K/ is mapped to {L}.

(This maximal symmetry would allow you to use a very simple Perl script to
convert a text file using capitalization into one using doubling:
     open(IN, 'velika.txt'); open(OUT, '>roman.txt');
     while(<IN>){s/([A-Z])/\L$1h\E/g; print OUT;}
)

The /dz/ _j_ mapping was inspired by the philological Romanization of
Armenian.  If you don't like it you may also use /dz/ _x_, /dZ/ _xh_ as in
the Roman orthography of Albanian!

     Vowels
           front       central     back
           i(í)  y(ý)              u(ú)

           è(ê)        e(é)        o(ó)

           a(á)

This seems to me more elegant, since schwa being the less marked sound --
essentially you have a bunch of vowels which are marked for
frontness/backnes/roundedness and one which is just [+vowel]! -- should
have the simpler grapheme.  Moreover the circumflex can be viewed as a
combo of acute and grave, while no such obvious relationship exists between
acute, dieresis and circumflex.


/BP 8^)>
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