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Re: Orthography changes...

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Sunday, July 23, 2000, 7:00
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/ .
- 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)