<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hello all, </p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)">I have been working on an orthography for my mother tongue Khroskyabs and I ran into a difficulty regarding the ‘depth’ of orthography, meaning the level of linguistic structure to represent orthographically. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> I have been consulting with Yunfan and</span> I am hoping to get your insights on this.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)">The orthography is based on Tibetan alphabets which the speakers are already familiar with. The question that I ran into is whether or not to reflect allophonic contrasts with different graphemes.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)">There are both pros and cons for either way. With my priority being language revitalization with high learnability, I am even thinking about combining both systems to maximize the sound-spelling transparency while simplifying some allophones with existing Tibetan preintials.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)">The allophonic variation cases:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)">pre-initial allophonic nasal: mb, mpʰ, mp, nd, nt, ntʰ, ŋg, ŋk, ŋkʰ<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>(For this contrast, I decided to use <span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Kokonor">འ</span>)</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)">Other pre-initial cases: <ʁ χ> , <ɣ x>, <v f>, <l ɬ>,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span><s z></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)">Any suggestions on how to represent the distinction between surface and underlying forms orthographically is appreciated. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">Best,</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">Yulha</span></p>
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