Re: Phonology question

In a message dated 7/12/99 5:50:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tb0pwd1@CORN.CSO.NIU.EDU writes:

<< Okay, a sound has popped up in my new language and I don't know what to
 call it.

 I'd call it an alveolar fricative, but I already have /s/.

 It's like a /t/, except the tongue is relaxed, arched slightly so the very
 tip touches the alveolar ridge.  Sounds a bit like a whistle, and it
 occurs at the end of words in my new language. >>

I believe Nzva also has this sound, which i transliterate as ts (e.g. lits-
face), as it is allophonous with t+s in compound words, like jitsetler-road,
from jit (car) + setler (path).  As for what it's called, I usually find no
need to describe Nzva's phonology to anyone so I haven't really bothered to
learn these terms.  I suppose i will when i take my first linguistics course
this year.

pp
JM