En réponse à bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>:
> |gdhmabgis| 9 letters
> [dvE:Iz] 6 phonemes ( including /:/ )
> so 3 phonemes are digraphs and 3 are monographs
>
> options :
>
> gd mh ab g i s
Just one thing: the order is |hm|, not *|mh| :(( . The |h| is between the |d|
and the |m|, not before the |a|.
> those marked X are illegal as they mark the
> antepenultimate phoneme as a digraph. so we now have
>
Just one thing: I did say that the length was specifically marked by a single
letter, but I never said it was considered a phoneme. It's a syllabic feature,
and thus cannot be considered in the way you were doing...
>
> if we make the understandable but probably
> presumptuous presumption that each vowel graph should
> contain a roman vowel letter, we can exclude those
> marked with a ? :
>
Presumptuous indeed (but I already said too much ;)))) ).
> gd mh ab g i s
> gd mh a b gi s
> gd m ha b gi s
> g dm ha b gi s
>
Well, I'll make your life easier by saying already that even when |m| and |h|
are swapped positions none of those are right...
> but this is probably a step to far.
>
Indeed :)) .
> if i have time i'll look in the archives and try to
> work the rest out. if noone beats me to it !
>
Well, I think that in this mail I gave very big hints. Now even without looking
at the archives many people should find the solution. If no one does, it will
be quite a success for the orthography of Maggel :))) .
Christophe.
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