Re: the lonely affricate

Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:
> Western dialects of Valdyan have [dZ]
[snip]
> Valdyan doesn't have any other affricates either.
Well, as long as we're talking about conlangs, Standard Watakass=ED used
to have only one affricate, /tS/, while fricatives are /f/, /s/, /S/,
/C/, /v/, /z/, /Z/, so it does distinguish voicing in fricatives.  It
later developed /dZ/ from a contraction of /daZ/ and /datS/ (which is
why it's written as <dzy> or <dty>), and later by borrowing, mostly from
other dialects that had developed /dZ/ from /dj/ and/or /gj/

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