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Philip Newton wrote:<br><br>> 2009/7/14 Roger Mills <rfmilly@msn.com>:<br>> [Kash]<br>> > The romanized spelling system uses just 3 diacritics-- c-cedilla, n-tilde,<br>> > both rather common; and the occasional acute accent to mark non-regular<br>> > stress. I use US-International keyboard, which enables easiest typing of<br>> > these; I'd imagine they're standard on European keyboards.<br>> <br>> Depends on the country -- c-cedilla and n-tilde aren't on German<br>> keyboards in Germany, at any rate, but I wouldn't be surprised to find<br>> them on French, Spanish, or Portuguese keyboards, for example. (Though<br>> I wouldn't be certain; I can't think of any "major" European natlang<br>> right now that uses *both* of them.)<br><br>As a computer neophyte, before I learned about the Alt-NUM method and later the US-Intl. keyboard, I used "sh" for c-cedil and "ny" for n-tilde; when I see old texts now, the look is jarring, but it's a possibility. One could also use "x" for the /S/ phoneme, a la Old Spanish.<br></body>
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