Re: Con-Orthography - PIE

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan van Steenbergen" <ijzeren_jan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 5:02 AM
Subject: Re: Con-Orthography - PIE


> --- Joe wrote:
>
> > I decided that the current PIE linguistic orthography leaves much to be
> > desired aesthetically, and I slammed together a new one.
>
> <snip>
>
> > so, my father had a dog is:
> > Misjo pchter kapti cvon.
> >
> > Looks quite pleasent, no?
>
> Indeed! I did a similar thing. Since I am still (partly, at least) living
in
> the Stone Age, I have my Indo-European roots database in dBase III+, which
> means that I had to do everything with ASCII. As a result, the whole stuff
> became much better readable.
>
> Question: how do you handle IE palatals (k', g' etc.)?
>
> Jan
>
I'm not a glottalist, so I ignore them. :-)

But if people insist on using them, then ky, gy, etc.

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