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Re: loglan rapprochement orthography



>Well, "graphically distinct" is in the eye of the beholder.  Is "a" really
>"graphically distinct" from "s"?  No more so than any other two letters.

>Yet one is a consonant and one is not.  "r" is sometimes a vowel, so it's
>not strictly a consonant; do we need to make it "graphically distinct" as
>well?  Those distinctions are dictated by the language and its users, and
>change as those do, not by how other languages opt to use the same symbols.
>
>~mark

I see your point but, while some letterals may stand for consonants in
one language and vowels in other languages, there are some letters that ONLY
stand for vowels, and others that stand ONLY for consonants.  Thus a/e/i/o/u
AFAIK are never used in any orthography to stand for a consonant, whereas
many if not all of "bcdghkpqtx" only stand for consonants and never vowels
(or anything else) leaving the other letters somewhat dependent on the
phonology of the language and the current convention of terminology as
to whether syllbic consonants are "consonants" or "vowels" or something else.
' is one symbol that is some languages has phonological value, usually
consonant like, but not considered a consonant by the nonlinguists who speak
the language.          ^necessarily
I have heard that it sometimes represents rough breathing, sometimes a glottal
stop.  I don;t know if there are other otpions.

lojbab