Re: A "minimalist" phonology...
| From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 24, 2001, 23:07 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Yoon Ha Lee" <yl112@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: A "minimalist" phonology...
> Yes--that puzzled me. Danny, do you have an example of where /ts/ would
> appear? I grant I'm only really familiar with Seoul dialect, but....
I have no idea. I was actually speaking of allophones/regional variants for
"c" in my hypothetical "minimalist" conlang, not Korean itself.
But I read in a German translation of _Hunminjeongum_ that Middle Chinese
/ts/ was represented by Hangul /c/; also MC /tsh/ (aspirated version) as K
/ch/ and MC /dz/ as K /cc/ (_ssangcieut_). And since an IAL in my opinion
should limit the number of phonemic affricates, I proposed "c", which can be
pronounced /tS/ or /ts/ or maybe /tc,/ (c-curl) or even /c/ depending on the
speaker's natural tendency. (And "j" its voiced equivalents.)
~ deedub, not to be confused with veedub ~
P.S. To YHL: Did I post the URL to that translation?
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