Re: Scripts

Mathias wrote:
>tunu's got this all. a consonant written alone is pronounced as
consonant+a.
>there is a kind of null consonant aleph "a". e is written a+e and o is a+o.
>u is written w+u and i is y+i. the diphtong ai is written "ayi"........
That looks quite similar to the Kash system.  Is it possible to distinguish
diphthongal "ayi" [aj] and ""ai"" with hiatus,[a.i]  i.e. 2 syllables?
(Looks like it isn't; perhaps sequences of vowels don't occur in Tunu-- CVCV
rules!).