Re: Big Six Revisited... again :/

Herman Miller wrote:

> >For me it feels very odd not to be able to distinguish between the medieval
> >and modern Theotisci and the ancient Germani when writing/speaking English.
> >
> >I coined "Germanian" once, but a native speaker balked at it.
> >
> >Why "halbániya" rather than "albániya", BTW?
>
> In my current model of Sagi phonology, syllables (including initial
> syllables) must begin with a consonant. H- [X] seemed like the least
> intrusive consonant to add, although I'm thinking that names beginning with
> "i" or "u" might be borrowed with an initial "y" or "w" respectively.
Why not a glottal stop? I'd say that's about as typologically common as
[h] is.

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