On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:10:47 -0500 Christopher B Wright
<faceloran@...> writes:
> Just wanted to ask a few questions—
>
> How many of you have scripts?
I do! Recently created, too.
> How many of you use diacriticals as vowels in your scripts?
Sort of. There *are* diacritical vowels, but they're usually omitted as
in Hebrew.
> How many of you have null letters (letters that don't represent a
> sound)
> to deal with the problem of diphthongs / multiple vowels per
> consonant?
I actually have two silent letters, but they're for writing initial
vowels or vowels in hiatus. To represent diphthongs I use the script's
equivalent of 'w' and 'y', then use other characters for actual /w/ and
/y/ after vowels . . . it gets rather complicated.
> Perhaps the ancient Sturnan didn't have /h/ at all and inserted it
> recently. That's much more likely than a lot of /h/'s disappearing
> recently.
I'd think the opposite. The change of h > 0 has got to be one of the
most common sound changes in the world.
Jesse S. Bangs Pelíran
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