On Wednesday 20 February 2002 18:10, Christopher B Wright wrote:
> Just wanted to ask a few questions—
>
> How many of you have scripts?
Me, me...
> How many of you use diacriticals as vowels in your scripts?
Ha! I use diacritics for consonants! I have three superscript
characters that go over the generic fricative charater to represent
the bilabial, palatal and velar fricatives and nasals. (The dentals
get their own letters.) Two of these same superscript characters will
sometimes appear over vowels to denote diphthongs: a+palatal = ai
a+bilabial = au. To be honest, these particular fricatives are closer
to glides.
>
> 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 also have a subscript character that goes under vowels and
sonorants that marks length.
:-)
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Sylvia Sotomayor
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The Kélen language can be found at:
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