Re: Esthetics

From:    Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...>
> With Xinkutlan, for example, I wanted a vaguely Aztec/Maya
> flavour (hence the _tl_ phoneme), and used that as a starting point, then
> decided on adding the phoneme _ll_ /K/ and making the phoneme written as
> _tl_ have allophones of /tl/ and /tK/.
Well, the <tl> in Nahuatl *is* [t_K], so I'm not sure I understand
the distinction between /tl/ and /tk/ except to say the latter is
two segments (/t/ + /K/), while the latter is one (/t_l/).

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