Re: Consonant Table

From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>

> 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]...)
Jery, or bI, is [1] or even [M], a high central (or back) unrounded vowel.
Similar to Turkish dotless I, Romanian A-circumflex, Welsh long Y and U (in
Northern Wales), and Scots Gaelic AO (I think). And don't forget Japanese U,
at least in Tokyo. I love that vowel, by the way.

> >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.......:-)
They stuck around in Sanskrit a while, I think...