On Wednesday 23 July 2003 11:21 am, Steg Belsky wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 23:48:08 -0700 Sylvia Sotomayor
<kelen@...>
> writes:
> > Thanks to everyone who has responded with sound-change and
> > orthographic
> > suggestions. I've decided to change the velars to uvulars and the
> > labials to velars (mostly), using nasalized w as the realization of
> > proto-m. A short explanation is available online (temporarily) at
> >
http://www.qistech.com/misc/sound-changes.html
> > for everyone to look at. I'll note that the page displays
> > beautifully in
> > any browser on my Windows machine, but that my various linux
> > browsers
> > don't seem to get the concept of combining-diacritic. :-(
>
> > Sylvia Sotomayor
> -
>
> My (Windows) computer shows most of the characters fine, except in the
> text where it describes the shift from velar to uvular in I-ra-n~.
> about in Iraq? ;-) )
> There, the |eng|, |small-caps N|, |chi|, |phi|, |schwa|, and
|barred-i|
> come out as boxes, as does the combining tilde. But i think it's just
> due to the font you're using there, because in the charts (that look
like
> they use a different font) everything comes out fine for me.
>
Yep. I just fixed that. Everything is now in the same font.
The name íráñ comes from a word meaning 'shift/change'. They got this
name on the basis of rumours of shape-shifting, but I think they really
got the name because they were genetically engineered (shifted) from
the kéleñi norm.
--
Sylvia Sotomayor
sylvia1@ix.netcom.com
kelen@ix.netcom.com
Kélen language info can be found at:
http://home.netcom.com/~sylvia1/Kelen/kelen.html
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á (a-acute) é (e-acute) í (i-acute)
ó (o-acute) ú (u-acute) ñ (n-tilde)