Re: Your Help Appreciated
From: | John Mietus <sirchuck@...> |
Date: | Sunday, May 7, 2000, 19:36 |
DOUGLAS KOLLER spake, saying:
> From: "Carlos Thompson"
>
>
>> Just a little nitpick in conventions. What does consonants like /kth/
> mean?
>> Slanted brackets (slashes) are used to give phonetic descriptions, then
>> /kth/ would mean the phonemes /k/, /t/ and /h/ (a pretty interesting
> cluster
>> IMO), or does /th/ mean english <th> sound? (note: angle brackets for
>> orthographic conventions). In most ASCII-IPA encodings, english voiceless
>> <th> is noted as /T/, or does /th/ mean aspirated /t/ (/t_h/)?
>
> Shameless conlang plug:
>
> Géarthnuns allows kth in syllable initial position, that's /kT/. Such as:
>
> kthédez career into
> kthelez die (from a disease)
> kthöileb respective
>
> Kou
Yes, that's what I was going for.
John