LL-L "Orthography" 2003.02.09 (04) [E]

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From: Theo Homan <theohoman at yahoo.com>
Subject: orthography

I am referring to the articles on orthography,
a.o.:
From: Dan Prohaska [daniel at ryan-prohaska.com]
and others:

Two small notes:

   1. When making an orthography for a language, the
number of phonemes may be a lot more than in the
traditional European languages. And you can represent
each phonem by a special symbol.
But how many 'alfabet symbols' can be handled by the
people in the parish?
What is in a didactic-pedagogical-practical way a
character-number that will find its way without to
many obstructions? How many diacritic signs are easy
to handle for printers of books and newspapers? And
for the internet?
There are historic examples of
''to-well-constructed-written-languages'' to find over
the continents.

   2. There is [of course] a tendency to show the
differences in orthography / pronunciation compared
with the surrounding 'major language'. But this
tendency may have the consequence that it is less easy
for interested people of the 'major language' to
understand the other orthography.
Example: You may write 'koai' to express that the /w/
is pronounced in an other way than the /w/ in 'kwaai'
in the 'major language'. But this is not making it
easier for the people in the parish.

So far.

Vr. gr. Theo Homan

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