Re: i just started working on an IAL

From: "Robert B Wilson"

> On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 17:34:06 -0500 Danny Wier <dawier@...>
> writes:
> > Cool! There's no G though, or would its value be zero like G-breve in
> > Turkish (well, it's not really zero; it lenghthens an adjacent
> > vowel, but
> > you know...)?
>
> there is no g because if i followed the same pattern as with p/b and t/d,
> it would be [G], which i think is a very ugly sound.  i guess i could
> have something like that, though (hmm... sort of like like the <gh> in
> english 'night'?)...
Oh exactly. A silent letter. Of course that's not a good idea for an IAL...