Talk:Kiowa language

Does "J" really represent a "T" sound?
If so, is this the result of some phonetic shift? Had they run out of other letters of the Latin alphabet? (but I see that some digraphs TH and CH are used). On the face of it, this seems a bizarre choice. Grover cleveland (talk) 06:15, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It is eccentric, but obviously McKenzie tried to avoid digraphs as well as he could, but didn't quite succeed. At least this way, no letter of the set abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz, which can be written on virtually any typewriter (OK – apart from those pesky Russian typewriters, but who still uses those?) and any computer keyboard out there (as far as I'm aware, all computer layouts include an easy way to type this set), went unused. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 15:29, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes. This is part of Parker McKenzie's orthography. He designed it so he could use a standard typewriter to communicate in Kiowa with his friends and associates. Daniel Harbour and Laurel Watkins have a nice paper explaining how McKenzie's orthography was highly linguistically informed and essentially ideal for the purposes for which it was designed when he designed it.
 * There is no phonetic shift involved in this. The letter J represents a specific sound in Kiowa. It is absolutely not the English letter J. Xj (talk) 21:13, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

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