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

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:58:20 +0200, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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).

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