Distinguishing dentals and palatals in the Latin alphabet
Distinguishing dentals and palatals in the Latin alphabet
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I'm indecisive about how to best distinguish dental and palatal phones in my WIP Indo-European cloŋ in the script of the Romans. The full consonant inventory and their current orthographic values are in the image above.
Some options I'm considering:
- t̪ c d̪ ɟ θ ç n̪ ɲ - The phonemes in question.
- t tc d dg s sj n gn - Their current assignments.
- t tj d dj s sj n nj - All Js. Looks nice and intuitive, but a bit monotonous.
- t ć d ǵ s ś n ń - The choice of diacritics is another matter. Looks clean, but they might fall victim to English speakers treating them as meaningless decorations.
- p t b d f s m n - Quasi-etymological. Looks okay, and makes it easier to spot cognates, but misleading and unintuitive.
Edit: I have no idea how to get tables working in Lemmy, so for now I've replaced the table with a screenshot from the Reddit thread.
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