En réponse à Mau Rauszer <maurauser@...>:
> Note that the last three long vowels(í,ó,ú) is actually written with
> grave accent but often simplified to acute accent in computer
> transliteration. The cats don't distinguish long vowels in writing but
> the language does (like Latin) so there's a lil' difficulty reading
> their glyphs -- and that's not the only problem.
>
Are their glyphs alphabetic? Or at least having a relationship with their
sound? Or is it a mixed symbolic-alphabetic system like the Egyptian or Mayan
Hieroglyphs? (I know that they are derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs - although
in the conhistory it's the contrary that happened ;))) -, but do they work the
same way?)
>
> Their consonants are the following (ordered according to the Meyadhew
> Alphabet Table)
>
> d /d/ t /t/ s /s/
> g /g/ q /k/ z /z/
> k /k_h/ dzs /dZ/
> b /b/ p /p/ sh /S/
Why not writing /S/ as |zs| or |sz|? It would look more compatible with |dzs|
for /dZ/...
> y /j/ ty /t_j/ x /ks/ {mostly for borrowed
> words except xit "foot"}
> w /v/ f /f/ (ch /tS/)
> m /m/ r /r/ h /h/
> n /n/ l /l/
> ny /J/ (lh /l`/)
>
> The consonants in parentheses are disappeared form LW during its
> evolution but they still have signs for them.
>
In which cases do they use those signs then? What were those consonants
replaced with?
Otherwise it all looks neat (except that cats could never pull their mouths
around most of those sounds ;))) , but some people managed to make them sing in
English, so why not? ;))) ). Can't wait to see the rest of the grammar.
Christophe.
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