Re: pitaWiSa writing system

 --- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote: > En réponse à
Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
>
> >
> > Is there any specific logic to this mapping?
> >
>
> My logic at least, I'd have made exactly the same
> mapping.
>
> > Had I been doing it, I'd almost certainly made it
> p/i t/a k/u, on the
> > basis
> > that it's front C or V, middle C or V and back C
> or V. I'm afraid I'm
> > pretty
> > (or prettily?) predictible on some points.
> >
>
> Predictable? Since frontness-backness has little to
> do with PoA, I find your
> mapping extremely strange. u is rounded, thus
> labial, and thus belongs
> definitely with p. a is often connected to back
> consonants (remember the thing
> about the name of Re in Egyptian being Ria3, the [a]
> being there only because
> of the presence of the back consonant 3?) and thus
> fits well with k, and i,
> being palatal, belongs with t which is the closest
> there.
>
> Christophe.
>
Yup, Christophe, that was pretty much my logic.  [p]
and [u] both belong in the labial group, along with
[w] and [W], [t] and [i] are both front (along with
[s] and [S]), and [k] and [a] are both back.

Rachel Klippenstein

(I've decided that my name comes out as <wttsp
kwtptsktk> [witsu kwipisata])

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