Talk:Proto-Eteonoric
I think that since I came up with the present Unicode-avoiding kludge I might be forgiven for suggesting that in 2012 the 'philological' transcription of the protolanguage can suffer an update to something less weird, more elegant and more credible in the Central European setting, with a perhaps not so typographically correct but simple ad hoc alternative when Unicode isn't available (showing the old transcriptions with 'strikeout'):
Consonants (partial)
| Alveolar | Postalveolar | |
|---|---|---|
| Affricates | ||
| - voiceless | *c |
*č (c^/C) |
| - voiced | *dz | *dž (dz^/Z) |
| - aspirated | *ch |
*čh (ch^/Ch) |
| Fricatives | ||
| - voiceless | *s | *š (s^/S) |
| - voiced | *z | *ž (z^/Z) |
Capitalization to indicate postalveolarity will generally be OK, since 'normal' capitalization won't occur!
Vowels
Vowels are a bit harder, since they ought to take markings for both length and stress, but I think circumflex or colon as alternative to macron for length mark and a perhaps post-posed acute accent (which exists in Latin-1) for stress will suffice. Thus 'human being' may be written in the following essentially equivalent (though not equielegant) ways:
- *šṓphē
- *šō´phē
- *šô´phê
- *s^ô´phê
- *s^ó:phe:
- *Sô´phê
- *Só:phe:
If we're meticulous with marking emphasis it should be clear what is ordinary punctuation and not.
BPJ 08:32, 10 September 2012 (PDT)
