Re: /consonant/vowel/diacritic mark for consonant/

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
wrote:

> Toki Pona is a constructed language with a phonology roughly
> comparable to Japanese's: syllables are V (only word-initially), CV,
> or CVn (is that the right notation? CVC is possible, but only if the
> last C is the sound /n/). Some people have proposed various
> alternative writing systems to the Latin alphabet which is most
> commonly used for it, partly because of the regular syllable
> structure.

I can't think of any way in which any sane way of representing a
final /n/ would affect the classification of the writing system.
(One insane way would be an alphabet for CVn and a syllabary for CV.)

Richard.