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Re: [westasianconlangs] Uchunata Arabic Orthography



Steg Belsky wrote:


> I think /./ here means 'retroflex', not 'emphatic', so this is just
the
> standard Urdu way of doing it (which confused me to know end the first
> few times i saw it).

Now I see. If they are retroflex, then indeed we can offer Urdu-like
rendering:
/t`/ - tteh U+0679
/d`/ - ddal U+0688
/n`/ - rnoon U+06BB.
But there is no siin with t.a superposed attested in Arabic scripts! I'd
offer seen with three dots below U+069B.

No rreh /r`/ U+0691, Theophilus, eh?

-- Yitzik