Re: Obrenje and Schwiizertüütsch

Frank Valoczy wrote:
> > Well, like it was already said, I like the orthography and the
>non-obvious
> > system of palatalization (well, I like everything which is non-obvious
>:)) ).
> > Especially the use of 'c' for /h/. That's the first time I see such a
>value for
> > it :) (poor ol' c, it already has so many values. I think it's gonna get
>the
> > award of the most versatile letter in the alphabet :) ).
>
>Somali uses 'c' to represent a pharyngeal fricative (Arabic
>'ayn).
Thanks! That more or less explains why my atlas has "Galka'yo" for a certain
Somali city, while a girl from there that I met instisted on the spelling
"Galkacyo". Her pronunciation of it came across to me as /galka_ia/, so I
wondered what that "c" was doing.

                                                  Andreas
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