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Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
* _ghl_ /gl/ and _ghn_ /gn/ build on the Italian use of _gh_ to denote absence of palatalization.
Have you considered using the interpunct here, rather than _h_, by analogy with Catalan? It's not very elegant, admittedly, and it's particularly tricky in ascii. There's also the possibility of representing internal /gl/ with _cl_ (and /kl/ by _ccl_, I guess)?
# A possible 'solution' Perhaps historical /gl/ which didn't become /L/ instead became /g4/, giving _?gl'igridsg_. This would give rise to other monstrosities, however: what of Latin initial GL-? Did it become /L/ or /gr/? And what, in the latter case happens to GLORIA? Does it become _?graugle_ with a further dissimilation of */r_j/ after the newly arisen /4/, rather than _?greure_ or _gleur_ /L-/ or _?ghleure_? Or perhaps _?greuye_ with */r_j/ > /j/?
For what it's worth, it seems that in WR at least, initial Latin /gl/ remained so: the development to /L/ (and subsequent values elsewhere) was restricted to intervocalic position.
Dan