Re: sound change question
| From: | Estel Telcontar <estel_telcontar@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 22, 2003, 0:45 |
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--- 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.
Estel
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