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On 1/19/06, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote: > I hereby propose: > > B as in Boy > C as in SHine <snip> > TC as in CHew > DJ as in Joe Looks good. I hope when you redo the phonology/ orthography web page you will do a table with this vague pronunciation guide *in addition to* IPA symbols; it would look a lot more professional. Maybe in addition to the alphabetical-order guide, have a phonetic chart showing the tceqli letters or the corresponding IPA symbols in point of articulation/ manner of articulation order. > E as in bEt* Was there supposed to be a footnote here? > Diphthongs formed with Y and W semivowels. That's better. > What shall the stress rule be? Current rule is on the last full vowel > (aeiou) before the last non-vowel, so we have pi-ra-MUN, BA-lu, sa-LI-na. > > Two other possibilities are straight penultimate, a la Esperanto, or initial > stress. I've always liked the initial stress of Finnish. Esperanto's stress rule works well for Esperanto's structure (stress often falls on the last syllable of the head morpheme), but I don't see how it would suit tceqli particularly well. However, I would not mind if you kept the current stress rule for the sake of stability. With tceqli's structure (modifier-head compounds, and no part of speech tag endings) final stress might make sense. Volapu:k has final stress, however, & that has always seemed to me un-euphonious. OTOH French also has typically final stress, and it's generally thought to be euphonious enough. What about stressing the *first* syllable of the *final* morpheme in each word? That might be too complicated, though -- on second thought better suited to an engelang than an auxlang. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry