How to write sh-sound?

[Kevin Behrens]

Very interesting this discussion. On the gothic wikipedia we were thinking about making a system of how to write English words (like those of actors, brands etc.) in Gothic. We haven't got so far. But there are two ways on the wikipedia of doing it: 1. writing in latin alphabet (which I really don't appreciate) 2. trying to apply such rules.
And for the "sh" sound in most cases 𐍃𐌷 is written, it seems to be a not outspoken intuitive rule among the users there. And I think it is the best way. Since it wasn't in the Gothic pronounciation, we don't need letters, that are as much as possible close to the Gothic language. We could just adopt "sh" as 𐍃𐌷 and everything is fine, too many thoughts about that would maybe be off target. It's the most intuitive way of doing it and so the easiest way for learners. 
The X sound should only be used for sounds like in German "ich/ach", as it was originally ment. Using it also as "sh" would maybe confound too much. 

To: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com
From: thomas at ruhm.at
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:11:10 +0100
Subject: Re: [gothic-l] How to write sh-sound?


















 



  


    
      
      
      'Sy' plus vowel developed to 'sh' plus vowel or 'shy' plus vowel in many languages. 'Shy' looks like shy.

    
     

    
    






   		 	   		  

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