[YG Conlang Archives] > [engelang group] > messages [Date Index] [Thread Index] >
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 1:38 PM, selpa'i <seladwa@hidden.email> wrote: > Am 08.10.2012 18:05, schrieb Jorge Llambías: > > > > "y" is [j] (and I think Mike proposed it could also be [y] in lujvo). > > We only defined a few interjections with w-, but I mentioned that I > > would probably like to add some with y- too. > > Oh, okay. A shame that there are so few letters in the latin alphabet. > :) I would prefer if every letter had just one pronunciation, but there > aren't any letters left if you don't introduce diacritics. [j] and [y] would be allophones in Xorban. > Maybe a > hyphen can replace the stem-internal <y> thus: "bcd-fgj". But in speech, > there is no difference between that and "bcdfgj" (if you happen to > insert a schwa in the middle), and you can insert schwa anywhere anyway, > so is this compound hyphen really necessary? The schwa [@] is different from [y] (German ü). > Not a very urgent issue > though. > For what it's worth, I'd like to have the y- interjections. So would I. They are not inconsistent with the use of y in lujvo. co ma'a xrxe