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Re: Alphabet



--- In txeqli@y..., Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> wrote:
> Here's the alphabet as of now:
> http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/alph.htm
> Any typos or mistakes there?

Yes. You list J twice. The second one (after W) should be Y. Aren't we back almost exactly where Ceqli was when we started this list? :-)

Right after that, you have a list of word pairs like cow - kaw. This list is confusing without an explanation of what it is trying to say. I suspect it would be clearer with the columns reversed, but even then it needs to be made obvious that it is pronunciation only, not meaning.

I just realized that one could argue that J V Z are weak-like. If you want more weaks and fewer consonants, you could shift them. Or not.

Finally, I would like to cast my vote for using (or at least allowing) a hyphen to join morphemes. This is one thing that I really like about Glosa, because it makes it really easy to parse a long group of letters into its roots. I know with Ceqli you CAN figure it out without the hyphens, but it sure is easier with them.

Kevin