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Re: Revising the alphabet!



--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May <rmay@m...> wrote:
>
> I hereby propose:


> TC as in CHew
> DJ as in Joe

The increased number of consonantal sounds starts to make the
pronunciation of the language more complicated; such digraphs could
arise accidentally in agglutinations.  

Alas, we can't do much about it if we stick with the Roman/ASCII
alphabet.  Even adopting X for the CHew sound (as a softening of the
Greek &#935; which has the same shape), we're still stuck with a double
letter form for the latter sound.  Even broadening to Latin-1 doesn't
give a suitable other choice for either - without doing something
horrible like putting Ñ for NG, and shuffling a lot of letters about
to take advantage of freeing-up Q.