[Slaviconlang] Cyrillic letters for /T/ and /D/

Pavel A. da Mek skrev:
 >> How would you all react to a (non-Slavic) Cyrillic-based
 >> alphabet using upside-down Cyrillic {s} and {z} for /T/
 >> and /D/? The idea is that a 19th century alphabet maker
 >> was able to turn existing lead types upside down to
 >> create new symbols, but not to add diacritics or wholly
 >> new shapes.
 >
 > What was easy for lead printers, that is not so easy for
 > computer printers.

Indeed, and I've restricted/modified my proposed alphabet
and phonology accordingly to letters/sounds that can be
found in or faked with DejaVu, i.e. in addition to the now
usual Russian alphabet:

- /D/
     - LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OPEN E
     - LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E
- /T/
     - LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OPEN O
     - LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O
- /e/
     - LATIN CAPITAL LETTER REVERSED E
     - LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA
- /jE/
     - CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER UKRAINIAN IE
     - CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER UKRAINIAN IE
- /i/
     - CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
     - CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
- /j@/
     - CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YAT
     - CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YAT
          - Hard sign is /@/!
- [g]
     - MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE + CYRILLIC CAPITAL
       LETTER GHE
     - MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE + CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE
          - [g] is a word initial allophone of [N] which is
            written with Cyrillic {ng} while {g} without an
            apostrophe is /G/. Probably {'g} occurs in other
            positions in loan words.
          - There is a similar allophony with [d] /nd)/ and
            [b] /mb)/ too, and the script is subphonemic in
                these cases.
- /ji\/
     - CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SOFT SIGN + CYRILLIC
       CAPITAL LETTER I
     - CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN + CYRILLIC SMALL
       LETTER I
- /ji/
     - CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SOFT SIGN + CYRILLIC CAPITAL
       LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
     - CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN + CYRILLIC SMALL
       LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
          - You guessed it, /i/ and /i\/ are written _modo
            Ucrainico_!

Earlier versions of the alphabet included things like {nlx}
with hook and {iy} with diaeresis, which have had to go.
OTOH I'm annoyed at finding a good substitute for upside
down {r} where the lowercase really looks like an upside
down p, which I want for /4/ distinct from /r/.

The fictional setting is that a native improves an
orthography introduced by Russian missionaries, mainly by
using upside-down letters. The main exceptions are /@ j@ i
ji i\ ji\/ where redundancies in the existing 19th century
Russian letters were exploited instead. It may be noted that
{y} ends up unused!


/BP 8^)>
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