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Re: C



> My new idea is this: C wouldn't be pronounced; it'ld be there to 
allow 
> words to start with vowels and still fit the rules.  If someone 
wrote 
> something with no spaces, I could still find what morphemes are 
where. 
>  The only real problem I can see is that voice-recognition software 
> might get confused, so for this they could be limited to foreign 
> names/place names.  With the context clues, this works seems to 
work 
> to me.

I think your proposal would be pretty much equivalent
to make <c> stand for a glottal stop.

BTW, has anybody noticed the proposal I made
several messages above?:

<c> = /S/ -- <tc> /tS/
<j> = /j/
<x> = /Z/ -- <dx> /dZ/
<y> = schwa

With that orthography the name of the language would
be Tceqli.

Best regards,
Javier