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| As some of you know, I recently retired, and now that I've got my home business in pretty good shape and moving along, I have time to devote to Ceqli that I didn't before. I know I've said this before, but I'd like to baseline _something_. First, the orthography. I've been torn between the handiness of letting 'c' represent /tS/ on the one hand, and the symmetry and elegance of the Loglan system, where all affricates are considered two phonemes. I'm ready to move towards the elegance system. I like for, as much as possible, the language to be _transparent_, and, in a small but significant way, the revealing of two phonemes where the system now masks them as one contributes to that. The alphabet as is: B as in Boy What I want to do here is eliminate the C as /tS/ and instead represent it as either 'tc' or 'tx'. I don't think there's a lot to say for either side. The tc is familiar to Loglan/Lojban people, but not much of anybody else. The tx would be familiar (sort of) to Portuguese, Pinyin, LFN users. Another consideration is that this will make the alphabet 25 letters, leaving out either c or x. Which would be best to leave out? And if we have that extra letter, can anybody think of a role for it? I keep thinking it could be a schwa, but given schwa-buffering, that's probably a bad idea. Another Idea is that the extra letter could be used to indicate non-Ceqli sounds. tx (or tc) = /T/, that sort of thing. Reactions? Rex May rmay@hidden.email 1-970-221-5528 Daily cartoon at: See some of my other cartoons at: Graphic novel I helped write at: |