Re: Consonant Table

Someone wrote:
> >About the palatals <ti>, <di>, <dhi>, etc.: can these consonants occur
> >before other consonants, or only before vowels? If so, then I'd consider
> >using <tj>, <dj> etc.
Chris Bates wrote:
> I probably didn't explain what I meant very well.... if you write the
> word tin, the t is alveolar and the i is pronounced. But if i is
> followed by another vowel sound, for instance tian, ti together
> represents one palatal sound instead of t + i. I don't think they can
> occur in front of consonants.
Offhand, I'd go with the "tj, dj"writing too, or some diacritic to indicate
the palatalization ( "t, " or "t' " are frequent though ugly; "ty" etc. too,
maybe).  Of course in romanization, "ti-V" would work.
A question:  can your "ti" et al. occur before /i/? i.e. could there be a
word/syllable written "tii..."?  IIRC that's possible in Russian ("backwards
N" palatalizes, while."61" doesn't, though 61 I think is not quite [i]...)

>I've gone stop mad suddenly lol... I was
> thinking about adding a set of palatised velar consonants (because PIE
> has them, and it was reading about PIE that made me add so many stops in
> the first place).
>
Yes, but the palatalized velars didn't last long.......:-)

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