Philip Newton skrev:
> 2009/6/1 <deinx nxtxr> <[log in to unmask]>:
>> Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
>>> Why, there are so many nice throaty sounds it
>>> can be made to stand for! ;-)
>> So Sasxsek's use of <q> for /N/ is okay?
> 
> IIRC, Fijian uses <q> for /Ng/.
> 

Yes and _g_ for /N/.  I used

_g_ = /N/ and _q_ = /g/ in one conlang long ago.

OK _q_ values for me would be [? H\ q X G\ R G g
k], i.e. values which descendants of the Semitic
letter Qof have traditionally had in natlangs,
*and which I've grown accustomed to see
transliterated with _q_.

Actually I think what really rubs me the wrong way
with the Albanian and Pinyin assignments is that
the value of _q_ is front of the value for _k_,
which strikes me as totally ahistorical.  I think
I'd had an easier time with _q_ for /k/ and _k_
for /c/ or /ts\/.  This said I'm well aware that
Pinyin _q_ actually stands in for a Cyrillic
letter of vaguely similar shape, but that's IMO a
lame excuse.

Of course I'd been really upset if _q_ were
assigned to /ts/ and _c_ to /tS/, even though _q_
is vaguely reminiscent of Cyrillic _ts_ as well.
The principle is _c_ is front of _k_ is front of
_q_.  Even the IPA agrees on that! ;-)

/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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