Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 3, 2003, 6:09 |
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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)
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