Re: Orthography changes...

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>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").
The glottal stop in Saalangal is considered a phoneme in the language.
It's not merely to mark boundaries. It's represented in the native script
at the ends of words (since unlike the Latin alphabet, it is
alpha-syllabic). it is also the only character that does not have an
inherent vowel sound (it was added later).

Oh, and an update, i've done a more Thai style looking style for the
script. I think it's the best looking style i've made up for it. You can
see it on the page about the orthography and sounds of Saalangal:
http://student.monterey.edu/dh/garciabarryjames/world/language/phonology.html

No examples of it in use yet.


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