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On Monday, February 23, 2004, at 02:49 AM, habarakhe4 wrote:
A Question: how would one suggest an Arabic-writing scheme for the following phonemes of Rtunata? p, t, t` k b, d, d` m, n, N, n` f, s, S, s` t_S, t_s d_Z, d_z r, j a, e, @ , i, i\, o, u
For the retroflex consonants (i'm assuming that's what the ` means), i'd suggest looking at how Urdu does it:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/urdu.htmLook around the Omniglot Arabic webpages... a few languages seem to use |kaaf| with three over-dots as /N/. Pashto ( http://www.omniglot.com/writing/pashto.htm ) also has an idea for /tS/, /ts/ and /dz/. For vowels i'd suggest: (i hope i'm remembering the names of the diacritics properly)
/a/ = (fatHa +) alif |aa| /@/ = fatHa |a| /i/ = (kesra +) yaa |ii| /i\/ = kesra |i| /o/ = damma |u| /u/ = (damma +) waw |uu|/e/ = (kesra or fatHa with?) empty yaa-shaped hamza-seat, alif-in-the-form-of-yaa at the end of a word
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