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Re: [westasianconlangs] Re: Ajami consonantism



At 18:46 8.3.2004, Isaac Penzev wrote:

>I'm limited with characters available in standard fonts. 

Tell me about it!  Raamiyaan properly has a gaaf with 
three dots above (gnaaf) for the phoneme /J/.
Nun+ye is not really an alternative, since it would
be read /ni/.

>About hh:
><<What about _qh_?>>

BTW you don't use _ch_ now, do you, since /tS/ = _tx_?


>I'm reconsidering the whole scheme once again. Since it is totally
>unofficial, I may end up with Esperanto alfabet - it has all
>necessary letters, except `ayin that I can render with |q|.

Ouch!  What about â for `ayn? :)

Seriously I'd suggest the true Yogh (U+021C, U+021D)
At least Gentium has it! 

/BP 8^)
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