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

From:T. A. McLeay <conlang@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 8, 2007, 6:36
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.