Re: CHAT: YAC: or more exactly: yet another conlang sketch

Robert Hailman wrote:

> Of course, this raisis the question of how Rinyi and Nakiltipkaspimak
> (dear God, that's a long time) came to be spoken on the same island, if
> the two languages aren't related at all.
Not really different from the case of English and Welsh being spoken
on the same island; although there is a relation, the time-depth is
such that it's not obvious to anyone but specialists.  In addition,
on the island of New Guinea there are ~ 1000 languages spoken, many
of which may be quite unrelated.

> Off topic: I like how in German "s" represents /z/ in most situations,
> and "z" represents /ts/, and "ss" represents /s/. However, I decided to
> use the Polish convention of "c" for /ts/, and thus if "s" represents
> /z/, what does "z" represent,
How about /dz/?

> and what represents /s/? Any ideas out there?
I like "ss" in that role.  The table:

        ss      /s/
        s       /z/
        c       /ts/
        z       /dz/


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