Re: new Unnamed Conlang

Quoting Rodlox R <rodlox@...>:

> > > kh (like "KHaan" in Mongolian)
> >
> >Mongolian might be a poor example, since very few people speak it.
>
> you never heard of Gengis Khan?  :)
I have, and usually pronounced ['jINIs 'kA:n].

(How do anglophones pronounce it?)

> > > 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\
Ah. Would I then be right in assuming that 'sy' and 'zy' denote, respectively, a
voiceless and a voiced palatal fricative? (I'm still curious to hear what
Eastern European language uses them - I thought I had a decent grasp of the
various Latin orthographies of EE.)

                                                    Andreas

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