Re: Orthography changes...

At 20:37 20.7.2000 -0700, Barry Garcia wrote:

- glottal stop at the ends of words is written as h: tande' > tandeh
- in order to distinguish words like "awa", and "a-wa", i'm also using h
to denote the syllable boundaries: kawa > kahwa (it basically represents a
glottal stop). Originally i had thought about using a - but, i didnt like
the look of it.

Do you use "h" also for /h/?  No problem if they are in complementary
distribution, but else...  How do "awa", and "a-wa" differ -- as /awa/ and
/a?wa/ or by something else? Are they written differently in the native
script?  The "h" -> 0/V_V was one of the things that irritated me with
Indonesian.  What about "q" for glottal stop?

- c represents /tS/: chan > can (yep, i've changed my mind. I actually
like the look of it for /tS/ now)

One letter per phoneme is a Good Thing! :-)



/BP 8^)>
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