>From: Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: new Unnamed Conlang
>Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:08:20 +0200
>
>It's in general tricky to figure out exactly what's meant when the sounds
>of one
>language is described in the terms of others,
Whose language is X-Sampa ? :)
> > kh (like "KHaan" in Mongolian)
>
>Mongolian might be a poor example, since very few people speak it.
you never heard of Gengis Khan? :)
> > jy (like "DJoser" in Ancient Egyptian)
>
>I don't know how AE sounded, and I doubt anyone else does for sure either.
>What's
>worse, I don't even know what the conventional pronunciation of 'dj' is for
>it.
ýn X-Sampa - J\
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