Re: Two questions about Esperanto

Quoting Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>:

> On Jul 8, 2004, at 3:25 PM, Ray Brown wrote:
> > But syllabic |r| is not a consonant. If a language uses the circumflex
> > in
> > something like its original use, i.e. to denote high pitch falling to
> > low
> > pitch on the same vowel, and it has /r/ as syllable nucleus, then of
> > course we'd expect the circumflex to fall on |r| sometimes. But I was
> > talking about true consonants. AFAIK Esperanto is the only language
> > that
> > pits circumflexes on true consonants.
>
> > Ray
>
>
> (cough)(cough)Rokbeigalmki(cough)(cough)...
>
A very early conscript of mine (the associated "conlang" was a pure naming
language, with basically Swedish phonology), supposedly a future daughter of the
Latin script, featured a letter looking like q-trema. The reason was that 'q'
and 'g' had become identical, and thus the dots were introduced on the later to
disambiguate. (And yes, it had made tons more sense putting the dots on 'q', or
ditch it altogether.)

                                                               Andreas