Re: The Combos [hj] [hw] and [gw] in Conlangs
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 3, 2000, 4:56 |
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Roger Mills wrote:
> Marginal, all in non-native words AFAICT: guano, gouache. Proper names
> Guido, Guelph(?), Gwendolyn, Guinivere, Gwathmey, McGuire. Am I missing
> something?
Well, also words like "language", which, while of foreign origin, is
pretty well established.
> My first reaction to Leo Moser's post was: Phonemic status, or permitted
> phonetic clusters?
I just assumed he meant as a cluster.
> Engl. /hj/ is very restricted--
And not present in all dialects. I say, for instance, /CudZ/ for
"huge".
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