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Re: [txeqli] Re: C



on 2/25/02 5:29 PM, uaxuctum at uaxuctum@hidden.email wrote:

>> 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.

I was badly wanting a schwa for some time, because I wanted to borrow lots
of Mandarin and English words like feng, ben, gun, bum, etc.  But I also
wanted words that would end with an unstressed 'a', which, for me at least,
tends to turn into a schwa.  Words like kama, etc. would be pronounced with
a schwa by English speakers, thereby making kama and kamy homonyms.  So I
reluctantly forgot about schwas.

One problem with having C be a glottal stop is that we'd have to be very
careful not to make a glottal stop elsewhere, as in the letter names 'he a,
he e', etc.  And that, for me, precluded glottal stop as a phoneme.

Here's a weird thought.  C could stand for the sound in 'bee CHew', while TX
stands for the sound in 'beeT SHoe.'  Nah.





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