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Re: Enochian, also ritual language, was: The search...perfect language

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 22, 1999, 17:08
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:22:04 +1200 Andrew Smith
<hobbit@...> writes:
>> I don't think i've ever used Thav....i'm Diasporan Ashkenazic, so i >> automatically equate "soft" Tav with Saf. However, since none of >the >> accents i'm commonly in contact with have a "soft" Dalet, Dhalet is >the >> only one i know of (and my using it probably has something to do >with >> learning Spanish, which has a similar [d] >> [D] softening). >> Although, in my bare-phonological-level planned conlang Judean, the >> softenings are [t] >> [s] from tav/saf and [d] >> [z] based on that, >for >> a hypothetical dalet/zalet.
>So Tav is always Tav except after a short vowel when it becomes Saf? >
After a long vowel or a shva-na`, or after a short vowel at the end of a syllable. -Stephen (Steg)
> >- andrew.
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