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Re: sound change question

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Monday, July 21, 2003, 23:37
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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Sylvia Sotomayor <kelen@...>
Jean-François Colson <bn130627@...>
Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>