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Re: Q about /c/

From:Javier BF <uaxuctum@...>
Date:Sunday, January 25, 2004, 16:41
>>- Hungarian: spelled "ty" /c/ and "gy" /J\/, e.g. tyúk >>'hen', kutya 'dog', gyerek 'child', magyar 'Hungarian'. >> >>- Basque: spelled "tt" /c/ and "dd" /J\/, used mainly >>in hypocoristics, e.g. ttantta 'droplet', kuttun >>'little darling', Maddalen 'Maggie' (I'm only aware >>of _onddo_ 'mushroom' not being a hypocoristic). > >Forget ye not the many Indic languages.
Well, yes. Although in those there is no phonemic distinction between the palatal plosives and the postalveolar affricates like there is in Basque ('tt' vs. 'tx') and Hungarian ('ty' vs. 'cs'). Cheers, Javier