The
conversation about ogoneks pointed me again towards Navajo. There is this peculiar
i-ogonek-dot-acute character which can apparently be only produced by a combining sequence or a substitution glyph, since it has no Unicode. It seems to be a similar case like the
g-tilde for Guaraní or the
ij-acute for Netherlands. Has anyone insights about the desired design of that character? Should the two top tittles sit above each other or besides? Should the dot even disappear (like with the dutch ij-acute)? What is to say about its capital equivalent?
questions, questions …
source: Wikipedia
Comments
I believe it's typeface design's place to do this. Since the field of linguistics remains firmly enthralled by spoken language at the expense of the written, it's really on us (we just have to observe, listen and be sensitive).
And I hope such a spirit can be applied to other Latin-dependent cultures.
The point still stands: you’ll need a dotless i with ogonek for the Navajo letters.