Re: |c| in Volapük

Mark epenom:
 
> I've read various descriptions of Volapük 
> pronunciation, and some say that |c| is [tS], 
> some say [dZ], and some say it is "between" those two
> sounds.  Can anyone tell me, in unambiguous notation,
> what it really is?
 
Louis Lambert's "A Grammar of Volapük" (1888) says [dz]. M. W. Woods
"Volapük Dictionary" (1888) says that it is [dZ], but also that a
resolution to change it to [tS] had passed in the Volapük Academy but
was not yet in force. Ralph Midgley's Volapük correspondence course
(revised Volapük) says [tS].
 
So, apparently, in original (Schleyer's) language it was [dZ], then it
was changed to [tS] and remains so in de Jong's revision of the
language.
 
Thomas
 

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