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Re: C (was: Acadon (was: Lingwa de Planeta))

From:John Vertical <johnvertical@...>
Date:Friday, August 10, 2007, 11:05
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 12:32:22 -0400, Ollock Ackeop wrote:

>>On 8/8/07, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote: >>> >On 8/6/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote: >>> >> (I'm not including |ch| which would add a whole lot more :) >>> > >>> >Are there that many? I can only think of /k/, /S/, /tS/, /x/ ([X], >>> >[C]). >>> >>> You can add /k_h/ (Greek loanwords) >> >>Do you mean "loanwords from some language into Greek" (which makes >>little sense, since Greek is not usually written with the Latin >>alphabet) or "loanwords from Greek into some language"? If the latter, >>which language? If English, are you claiming a separate phoneme /k_h/ >>distinct from /k/? >> >>Cheers, >>-- >>Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> > >I imagine he means loans from Greek to English where the English variant >uses /k_h/ for Greek /k/ -- in which case the letter used can be |c| or |k| >(not sure why the difference exists, though).
I was thinking of Classical Latin, actually. John Vertical