Andreas Johansson wrote:
> I dunno if we ever made an official name for the law that says that for
any
> feature you can think up for a conlang, no matter how freaky, there is at
> least one natlang that's already doing it, except ten times worse. If not,
we
> should give it a shortish name for easy reference.
>
How about "Johansson's (First?) Law" or "...Law of 10"?
> Anyway, I just realized that Telenzh has ended up with a pretty scary set
of
> voiceless affricates; bilabial, dental, alveolar, postalveolar and velar.
To
> this comes alveolar and postalveolar voiced ones. Anyone know of a natlang
> with this many, or even more affricates?
>
Aside from the dental one ([tT]?) it looks quite normal IMO; German and its
dialects comes close, for the voicless series at least.