Re: Betreft: Re: New Lang: Leropho (LONG !)

At 12:13 20.4.2000 +0200, Rob Nierse wrote:

>We still want (in the end) use the Greek alphabet. Since we make
>'pt' a phoneme, we have to make a sign to represent it.
>Do you have any ideas of a symbol that can represent 'pt' and looks
>Greekish (don't ask me "what is greekish to you!") ?
What directly springs to mind is the Old Rumanian use of theta for /ft/,
but if you got /T/ in your phonology that is obviously a no-starter...
         Second best choice would IMO be old-style pi -- the glyph that
looks like a lower-case omega with the roof of a pi on it, and which is
mapped to {v} in the Symbol font.  It is conceivable that it may have a
capital looking like a ligature of PI and Tau, too:

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If you want a /bd/ phoneme too there is also an old-style beta!




/BP

 B.Philip Jonsson
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