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Distinguishing dentals and palatals in the Latin alphabet

Distinguishing dentals and palatals in the Latin alphabet

I'm indecisive about how to best distinguish dental and palatal phones in my WIP Indo-European cloŋ in the script of the Romans. The full consonant inventory and their current orthographic values are in the image above.

Some options I'm considering:

  • t̪ c d̪ ɟ θ ç n̪ ɲ - The phonemes in question.
  • t tc d dg s sj n gn - Their current assignments.
  • t tj d dj s sj n nj - All Js. Looks nice and intuitive, but a bit monotonous.
  • t ć d ǵ s ś n ń - The choice of diacritics is another matter. Looks clean, but they might fall victim to English speakers treating them as meaningless decorations.
  • p t b d f s m n - Quasi-etymological. Looks okay, and makes it easier to spot cognates, but misleading and unintuitive.

Edit: I have no idea how to get tables working in Lemmy, so for now I've replaced the table with a screenshot from the Reddit thread.

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