Re: Orthography changes...

On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 19:31:13 -0700 Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> writes:
> Using q, i could use it to mark syllable boundaries also, and not
> confuse
> the hell out of people reading about the language: kam + an > kamqan
> >but else...  How do "awa", and "a-wa" differ -- as /awa/ and
> >/a?wa/ or by something else?
> Yes, the difference between awa and aqwa (using your suggestion,
> Phillip)
> is that the q (or in my example, the hyphen) is representing a
> glottal
> stop as in /a?wa/ .
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Talking about glottal stops and diphthongs, AFMCL, the sequence /awa/
cannot exist in Rokbeigalmki - it must be either {aowa} /awwa/, {aoa}
/aw?a/, or {awa} /a?wa/.  Rokbeigalmki doesn't write the glottal stop -
it uses different characters for each single vowel and diphthong, so you
know that /aw/ + /a/ = /aw?a/.  Glottal stops also appear separating
certain one-syllable affixes from their words, distinguishing the
sequences {i maldm} /i m a l d m=/ ("and humans") and {i-maldm} /? i m a
l d m=/ ("women").


-Stephen (Steg)