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Re: [ceqli] Alphabet page



On 1/29/06, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/alph.html
>
> Is updated.   Please critique for content and typos.

Putting the letters and phonemes in a table,
with IPA as well as English/French approximations,
would look more professional and be clearer.
Let me know if you want help with that.

You might note that |tc| and |dj| have an analogue
in French (which uses |tch| and |dj| for those sounds).

>xweylu - XWEY-lu

Is this a typo for "cweylu"?

You might show X-SAMPA or IPA pronunciations
for these stress examples, e.g. in this
case /"Sej.lu/.

>gx - fricative as in Urdu baGH
>kx - unvoiced version of GH

I'm not familiar with Urdu.  Are these
the velar fricatives /G/ and /x/, or uvular fricatives
/R/ and /X/?  If velar fricatives, |hx| would
be slightly less odd than |kx| because it
is also used in x-convention Esperanto.
Either way, you should give IPA symbols
as well, and maybe equivalents in more
languages than just Urdu.

>All Tceqli morphemes have the shape nCnF.

Is |C| standing for |cwaba| here?  If so
it should be |T|.
Also, you might use regular expression syntax,
like
T+F+, or
[ptkbdgfvcjszh]+[aeiouywlrmnq]+

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry