Re: The romamization of a complex tone system

En réponse à Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>:

> Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > Well, the real problem is that the Roman alphabet is absolutely not
> suited for
> > something more complicated than Spanish :))
>
> Even the Spanish had to add _ll_, _rr_ and _ñ_ (n-tilde) plus the
> acute.  :-)
>
And _c_ and _g_ have two different readings, obliging to use _u_ sometimes as a
silent letter to force the hard reading (and obliging to use the trema when it
should be pronounced nonetheless :) ), _h_ is silent, and you also forgot
_ch_ :)) .

Well, you see what I meant :)) .

Christophe.

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