Re: ng vs w

>From: Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: ng vs w
>Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 19:25:05 -0500
>
>On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, alexandre lang wrote:
>
> > * In this book I take my data from, Concise Compendium of the World's
> > Languages, J and W are both sorted together as the only semi-vowles, so
>i am
> > thinking that if i have one, i should also have the other.
>
>I'm not sure about that one. To the best of my knowledge, German has /j/
>but not /w/ (<w> being /v/).
>
>--
>Tristan                  <kesuari@...>
>
>War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left.
>                       - fortune.
oh, i was refering to the languages who do have both. But i have found my
mistake thanks to you, i was interpreting w as the english w since the IPA
chart seems to have both, thank you.


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