Re: Latin mxedruli, or do we really need capital and small letters?

Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:


> If one endows a conlang with a complicated or irregular (and I'm _not_
> suggesting that yours is irregular) then it seems to me there should be a
> conhistory for the script.
I know there _is_ a conhistory to Meghean writing - I've just not much invented
it yet!

I do know that the letter transliterated as 'h', which now serves as an
orthographic oddjobman, variously indicating fricativization, hiatus, /j/ and
zero*, originally indicated a central vowel, presumably [i\] or [@].

* And sometimes it indicates things that aren't actually there. Eg, _nehes_ "by
me" is usually pronounced [nes], despite having an 'h' thrown in, that
according to the rules forces [ne.es]. Mercifully, the spelling _nes_ is also
found. Does Maggel have anything of this sort?

                                                          Andreas

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