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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "habarakhe4" <theophilus88@h...> wrote: > Ut.unata Arabic Script > > Here is my proposal for Ut.unata in Arabic script. It was used in > the Fortunate Isles under Muslim domination, and still is used by > the Ut.unata community in the city of Bele_n in al-Wiraniyya (Muslim > South America) > > /p/ pa' (ba' with three dots below) Wouldn't this better be ba' with two dots below? Three dots seems to indicate an alveolar fricative; two has more diverse uses. Ba' with three dots below I'd expect to be a retroflex or a labial fricative. On the other hand, I'm assuming that language should make sense, which is a totally unfounded and illogical assumption. <snip> > /J/ nun + three dots above So you're broadening the usage of three dots rather than having a pair hanging near every third letter. > /di/ da' + ya' > /di\/ da' > /du/ da' + waw > /de/ da' + kasra > /d8/ da' + fath.a > /do/ da' +d.amma > /da/ da' + 'alif > /d/ da' + sukun Interesting. So a combination of /dj/ or /dw/ is impossible? Or would you need to memorize the difference? And are the vowels usually written? Can you omit the diacritic vowels? the glide symbols used as vowels? # Christopher Wright