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


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