Re: sound change question

Staving Estel Telcontar:
>  --- Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:
>
> > w-tilde looks very nice when I write it by hand, but û or W (I
> > already
> > use L, N, and T...) will have to go on the webpages. As for the
> > native
> > script, there is a base character for n which has diacritics for
> > labial
> > to make m, palatal for ñ, and velar for N. Since m is the one
> > changing
> > to W, I can use it. Regular w will stay as the generic fricative
> > character with labial diacritics. BTW, regular w started out as a
> > bilabial fricative.
>
>Since your w~ is derived from m, you could concievably keep using the
>letter m for it, though perhaps you're getting rid of m because you
>don't like the symbol.  It would be a bit of a misleading
>representation.
Or how about mu, which represents m and looks a bit like u in the lower case?

Pete