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Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 3, 2003, 6:09
JS Bangs wrote:
> Have you considered simply not having unique symbols for all possible > syllables? AFAIK this is fairly common in syllabaries:
Like kana. There is a diacritic for voicing, turning, e.g., ka -> ga, and CyV syllables are written with combinations of characters, so that _kya_ is written with _ki_ + little _ya_. Also, long vowels are written with vowel characters (kaa = ka + a), and gemination and the moraic nasal, the two legal codas, are written with their own characters (well, little tsu for gemination, and a unique character for the nasal) -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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