Re: Scripts
| From: | Arnt Richard Johansen <arntrich@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 23, 2002, 1:42 |
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Christopher B Wright wrote:
> Just wanted to ask a few questions—
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> How many of you have scripts?
Ah, thank you for bringing this up, Cristopher. It's one of my favourite
topics.
> How many of you use diacriticals as vowels in your scripts?
Well... sort of. The main writing system for my language is syllabic, so
I don't have diacritics that specify the vowel completely. But I do have
some diacritics that modify the basic vowel value of the syllable. I have
a macron-like thingy that goes on top of the syllable, which turns the
vowel into a diphthong with palatal off-glide. For instance, a sign that
means /kE/ unadorned, becomes /kEj/ with the diacritic. Furthermore, I
have a diacritic that looks like a breve, but behaves like a macron. :)
That is, it turns a short (default length) vowel into a long one.
Pictures and TTF font at: http://arj.nvg.org/ciktal/
> 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?
Well... again, sort of. I have syllables without consonants. So if it
ever becomes necesary to extend the inventory of diphthongs beyond the
j-final ones, I could write it with an ordinary syllable sign followed by
a vowel-only syllable sign.
-arj
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