Re: C (was: Acadon (was: Lingwa de Planeta))
| From: | John Vertical <johnvertical@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 8, 2007, 9:31 |
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>On 8/6/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
>> Thinks: how many different values are or have been given to |c| in
>> natlangs? I can think of /g/, /k/, /tS/, /ts/, /s/, /dZ/, /c/ and /|/
>> (dental click).
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>IIRC, it's /D/ in Fijian.
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>Who has /g/ for |c|?
Latin, before <G> was invented. Lojban has /S/ - maybe some natlangs too?
Ah, yes, found one: transcription of Kabyle.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabyle_language)
And if we start going deeper into conlangs, we can probably find everything
from labial flaps to glottals to /t/... :)
>> (I'm not including |ch| which would add a whole lot more :)
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>Are there that many? I can only think of /k/, /S/, /tS/, /x/ ([X],
>[C]). I imagine it could be used for /ts_h/ _vel sim_ but am not sure
>whether that's a digraph, then, or simply a combination of |c| + |h|
>(depends on the phonotactics (phonology?) of the language in question,
>I suppose).
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>Cheers,
>--
>Philip Newton
You can add /k_h/ (Greek loanwords) and /c/ (S. Vietnamese).
John Vertical
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