Re: sound change question
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 21, 2003, 23:37 |
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Shreyas Sampat wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:46:57 -0700, Sylvia Sotomayor <kelen@...>
> wrote:
> >I *like* Nasalized W! Now, how do I represent it orthographically????
> >Hmmm.
>
> My vote:
> |w| with tilde, or a nasal symbol with whatever you might already use for
> lenition. w-tilde is a particularly attractive symbol - I've seen it used
> in some Austronesian romanization, I think.
>
Yes, in at least one work that I know of-- to distinguish bilabial approx.
/w/ < *w from fricative /B/ < *b also written with "w" (the author should
have used "v", but being Dutch, it didn't look right to him, I guess).
But's it's VERY difficult to reproduce on the keyboard, and I don't think
there's a Unicode for it. In the Extended Latin Range, there's a
w-circumflex which is what I've used in discussing that language, and I
think u-tilde is also available.
Just in terms of romanization, I think Sylvia could get away with "mw",
perhaps "mh". u-circumflex might also work, and that's within ISO8859-l.
(Alt 0251). I don't recall offhand if Kelen has a native
orthography.......if so, no problem.
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