Re: Azurian phonology

On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:37:32 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:

>Both Icelandic and Faroese have an aspiration
>contrast rather than a voicing contrast, as does
>Danish.  It is disputable whether there was a
>shift from a true voiced--voiceless contrast
>since even in Swedish and Norwegian
>accents rather have a fortis vs. lenis stop
>opposition [...]
>Of course most accents of English have a
>similar fortis--lenis system.  OTOH Scots
>Gaelic has a system entirely analogous to
>that of Icelandic and Faroese.
Good to know, thanks.  So perhaps my "has shifted to" was a rash word choice.

In any case, this only increases the incongruity of the Azurian spelling to
me.  Among all these langs you've named not one does anything different to
<p t c/k> for fortis and <b d g> for lenis...

Alex

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