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Re: Learn MUTLAK the secret language of mutants

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 21, 2004, 8:36
Quoting Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>:

> Chtrouv ksè trèzintresan (mutant version of French "je > trouve que c'est très intéressant). > > I noticed with sorrow that this poor letter X will > find one more employment. It already could mean > (depending on languages), "ks", "sh", "tsh", "kh", "h" > and probably a few more (ts ?), now it will also mean > "th". I guess that in near future half of the > consonant phonemes in any language will be replaced by > "x". Much simpler.
I don't know what language uses 'x' for /tS/, but Albanian uses it for /dz/.
> Also, there is a letter meaning "th", in Icelandic for > example (maybe in phonetic alphabet too ?), it's a > sort of "d" with a stroke.
Yep. The letter is known as "eth", and denotes the voiced 'th' in English "they". CXS [D]. The voiceless counterpart (in "thin") is denoted by theta in the IPA, and [T] in CXS. Icelandic uses the letter thorn, which looks kind of a combination of 'b' and 'p' - a round thing with both left ascender and left descender. Andreas

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