Re: Revised Zharranh page

Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> At 05:50 8.2.2004, Herman Miller wrote:
>
>> For [j\], I'm using j-circumflex, firstly
>> because there isn't a precomposed z-comma, and secondly because it
>> doesn't sound like any kind of z at all.
>
>
> I haven't been able to look at your page yet
> (we use dial-up connexion and my stepson is on
> the phone with his girlfriend) but...
>
> It would of course be possible to use plain _j_ for /j\/
> and _y_ for /j/.  Then there is the True Yogh (U+021D,
> U+021C) which IMHO is an ultracool candidate for /j\/.
Before I had "yogh wedge" (Pullum & Ladusaw's name for what Unicode
calls "ezh with caron") assigned to /dZ/, I was using "j", which meant
that I needed some other variation of "j" for /j\/. I've thought about
keeping "j" = /dZ/ for languages like Tilya, which otherwise don't need
any letters out of the ordinary fonts, but if I can find a fixed-space
font that includes "yogh wedge" (I already have a couple of proportional
fonts), I think your suggestion makes sense.

As far as the actual yogh character, I'm tentatively thinking of using
it for glottal stops, mainly because reversed yogh is the obvious choice
for /?\/, and /?/ looks like the reverse of /?\/. Plus, it's the only
thing that has both a capital and lower case form that looks much like a
glottal stop symbol.

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