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

Philip Newton wrote:
> 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).
>
> IIRC, it's /D/ in Fijian.
>
> Who has /g/ for |c|?
>
>> (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]). 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).
Hanyu Pinyin has /ts`_h/; this contrasts with zh=/ts`/ and c=/ts_h/, so
it can't be analysed as c+h.