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Re: OT: cyphers (was: aliens!)

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Date:Thursday, December 13, 2007, 17:47
> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Mark J. Reed > It works like this: take the phonemic consonant sounds (sans > affricates, > which I treat as stop+fricative sequences), and pair up the
stops and
> fricatives that differ only in voice: > > /p/ + /b/ > /t/ + /d/ > /f/ + /v/ > /k/ + /g/ > /s/ + /z/ > /S/ + /Z/ > /T/ + /D/
I've come up with idea similar, but swapped stops for fricatives *and* voiced for unvoiced. /b/ -> /f/ /d/ -> /s/ /g/ -> /h/ /k/ -> /G/ /p/ -> /v/ /t/ -> /z/ Then a few others to fill it out. /l/ -> /j/ /w/ -> /r/