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Re: dZs?

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Friday, December 24, 2004, 12:57
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 23:25:08 +1100, Tristan McLeay
<conlang@...> wrote:

> Obviously, we get > Hrøgj- /hr2dZ/ -> Hrøgjes > with an expected pronunciation of [hr2tSs]. My English intuition tells > me that's naughty, but is my English intuition the one who's being bad? > Can anyone suggest anything better to do with it? I'm tempted to make > it [hr2ts]... > > (The language lacks a /tS/ phoneme.)
I would say keep the spelling and have NomSg /hr2dZ/, GenSg /hr2tS/ and risk introducing /tS/ as a phoneme in a later stage of the language. Paul