Re: Deseret Alphabet [was: Re: Regularized Inglish]

----- Original Message -----
From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: 01 October 1999 00:58
Subject: Re: Deseret Alphabet [was: Re: Regularized Inglish]


> "Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> >
> > "sixths" /sIksTs/ is the best example of that, IMO.  (If I have a /k/
> > in "strength", it's only very lightly pronounced, if at all).
>
> You have an /s/ in "sixths"?  I say /sIkTs/  :-)
>
> > And you don't seriously have an /l/ in "walk", do you? :)
>
> Ja, but that's not the point, the /kt/ is just WRONG!  :-)  And we have
> it so much, in "act", "fact", "walked", "faked", "baked", etc.
Maltese drops the first stop and doubles the second, so you get words like
'progett' for 'project'.

Demuan woudl probably do something similar with any loan words. While two
adjacent stops are theoretically possible, the first one would be a
syllable-final consonant, which would normally end up being pronounced as
the corresponding fricative, or sometimes a nasal.

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