Re: Language changes, spelling reform (was Conlangea Dreaming)

Fakatinátas tá Iún Á Í:
> <delighted look>  Morphophonemic is a word?  Wow!
Yep.

> OC, since I have to revise the ancestor-language
How come?

Another thing about Utakassí spelling - there is a constant debate over
the proper balance between phonemic and morphophonemic.  Some, for
instance, do not indicate predictable assimilations.  Whereas the
standard orthography has things like _ussiáitas_ (then he/she would have
faith), written Us-SI-Á-I-TAs, from us-tiái-tas, others write
_ustiáitas_, that is, Us-TI-Á-I-TAs (not a big difference, since TI and
SI are written the same, with the exception of the fricative diacritic),
or standard -tassi (TAs-SI) vs. non-standard -taski (TAs-KI), derived
from the suffix -tas and the suffix -ki.  Also, some will write
geminates in places where geminates cannot phonetically exist, but
should exist gramatically, like *sukklúi (new, gender 3 plural).
Standard orthography is _suklúi_ (SU-KLÚ-I), nonstandard is _sukklúi_
(SU*-KLÚ-I).

An interesting example, the plural of _sutluníi_ (hand) is _sutluníi_,
i.e., no distinction.  However, the last syllable is written, in
standard orthography, as _NIi_ in singular, _NI-I_ in plural.  That is,
in singular, it's indicated by the long vowel diacritic, but not in
plural.

On the other extreme, are those who completely ignore morphology, and
write purely by phonetics, including writing things like LA-FI-KÁ-I for
_lafikái_ (fish, pl.), standard LAf-I-KÁ-I, morphologically laf-iká-i.

P.S., is every syllable of your name equally stressed?