>From: BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
>Subject: Re: the glottal stop as {q}
>
>At 14:50 23.4.2000 +0100, Raymond Brown wrote:
>
>>Maltese, which writes the glottal stop as <q>,
>
>I read the other day that Somali also uses that mapping, as well as {x} for
>voiceless pharyngeal fricative and {c} for the voiced one (ayn). Oddly I
>feel that these mappings would be cool for a conlang but rub the wrong way
>for a serious natlang orthography!
Q yso glottal isn't _entirely_ strange; I get the impression 'q' normally
takes a sound farther back than 'k'. (Can't comment about the pharyngeals
though.)
>Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:33:02 -0300
>From: FFlores <fflores@...>
>Something really interesting (for me) is that the clitic object
>is beginning to agree in number with the *subject*:
>
> *La sinfonía le gustó a todos.
>
>(it's difficult to notice given the /s/-aspiration, but I'm pretty
>sure).
Does "/s/-aspiration" mean the silent final s?
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