Re: many and varied questions

Hi!

Etak <tarnagona@...> writes:
>...
> romanization of my conlang has capitals, but my
> syllabery doesn't.  Does anyone have any suggestions
> as to how to form capitals, preferably without using
> bigger letterforms because my letters are already kind
> of big.
I think there are two basic kinds of capitals: a) capitals are the
simple, original form of a letter, and small letters came in later,
maybe introducing more distinguishable letter forms for easier
recognition, b) capticals are the fancy version of (the normal) small
letters, introduced to mark paragraph starts etc.

You choose.  Or have both.  A three ways distinction of letter
forms. :-)

>    Another thing I'm wondering about is that my Romanization has
> different letters for 't' and 'd', 's' and 'z', and the other
> plosives and fricatives in my language, but the native syllabery
> doesn't because plosives and fricatives can only be voiceless at the
> beginning of words and so are automatically read that way.
Is is like Korean, for instance?  It uses a phonetic romanisation for
voice, although the native script does not distinguish voice
phonemically.  E.g. the island 'Cheju' actually has two syllables
starting with the same affricate in Korean.

> ---Etak
Etak?  I never heard that name?  Looks a bit inuktitutesque.  Sorry,
but I'm influenced of the new book about West Greenlandic that I got
last Tuesday....

**Henrik (Saarbrückemmiittuq)