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[westasianconlangs] Gedeh letters (was: Unicode)



Pavel Adamek wrote:

> Here is a list of Gedeh names of letters,
> written with Hebrew letters and Central European Latin letters:

Well done.

> 4 delum "door"

No feminine? In your previous msg about Gedeh it was "deltum"...
What is the origin of _ţ`_, _ś_ and _ć_?

Don't you think final "mem" is a bit annoying? Maybe you can try to denote
mimation diacriticly, like Arabic tanwiins?

> The Gedeh orthography differs from the Hebrew orthography
> in following items:

All this make sense, esp. p.4:
> 4) Unlike Hebrew, which marks stops with weak "dagesh"
> and leaves fricatives unmarked,
> Gedeh marks fricatives with "rafe" and leaves stops unmarked.
> So every "dagesh" in Gedeh means the doubling of the letter.

Does anybody know how gemination is marked in Ethiopic?

As for using 8, 6 and 9 as fake letters, it's a bit different from common
practice, but still quite readable. Isn't it, guys?

>       P.A.

B'hatzlachah,
-- Yitzik