Re: First post: presenting Classical Alyis

Abel Chiaro skrev:
 > Salutations, everyone!
 >
 > I am new to the list, and I'm a newbie on conlanging as
 > well. I have already learned a lot reading previous
 > threads here, and got a bunch of ideas. Thanks!
 >
 > This first message is to present you my first conlang,
 > Classical Ályis (which was supposed to be written with a
 > breve rather than an acute accent on the A, but I'm not
 > sure if Unicode issues lurk around here)

Plain Unicode text works in principle, but peoples
mail readers may or may not be able to display it
correctly. That's why we use CXS for phone*ic
transcription, for example.

Speaking of Unicode issues, an URI like

:> http://wordworld.wiki-site.com/index.php/Classical_%C4%82lyis

Is hard to type. You may want to create a page
[[Classical Alyis]] (spelling without diacritics) which
redirects to [[Classical Ălyis]] (Unicode spelling).
That device is quite popular on FrathWiki <wiki.frath.net>.

Also you may want to use precomposed ĂĔĬŎŬăĕĭŏŭ
etc. rather than combining diacritics, since those still
are likely to look better in most Windows applications,
especially in Upper Case.

Is this really your first language? Really impressive!

The breve as a stress mark is a good deal confusing! :-) Is
there any special (concultural?) reason you prefer it to the
acute? And I just can't get my head around ŋ for /ɲ/ (CXS
/J/)! :-) If the issue is with capitalization, there
actually is an Ɲ U+019D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LEFT
HOOK in Unicode, although I readily agree that neither ɲ
nor Ɲ are very aesthetically pleasing -- how is one to
write them in cursive to start with? I for one vastly prefer
diacritics to IPA xymbols in Romanization exactly because of
the issues of cursive writing and capitalization, but I'm
aware there are those who abhor diacritics! :-)
--

/BP 8^)
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