From: Chris Harvey (chris@languagegeek.com)
Date: Thu Sep 08 2005 - 12:28:04 CDT
Ysgrifennodd Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net> ar y 08-09-2005 am 12:39:
> Could you tell us more about how the underlined letters work in this
> orthography?
Sure. I will show underlined characters with an underscore, so a_i_ is
underlined ‘ai’.
There are 6 vowels in Shoshoni: ‘a’ [a], ‘e’ [ə], ‘i’ [i], ‘o’ [o], ‘u’
[u], and ‘a_i_’ [ɛ]. ‘a_i_’ is differentiated from ‘ai’ which is the
diphthong [ai].
Each vowel can be long or short. Short vowels are written as above, long
vowels are doubled: ‘aa’, ‘ee’, ‘ii’, ‘oo’, ‘uu’, and ‘a_a_i_’ (or even
‘a_a_i_i_’).
There are no consonants with diacritics.
Hope this helps.
Chris Harvey
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