Re: CHAT: A sample of my newborn conlang

| -----Original Message-----
| From: John Cowan
| Subject: Re: A sample of my newborn conlang
|
| Danny Wier wrote:
| > The funny sounds like "th", "dd', "ll" and "rh" have no Cyrillic
| > counterparts, however, unless you assign archaic Russian
| _fita_ (analogous to
| > Greek theta) to "th" and use doubled consonants for the rest.
|
| IIRC there is some non-Slavic language with /T/ and /D/, but I
| forget what they use.

        If you mean the "hard-th" (theta) and "soft-th" (thelta), it's
Icelandic. /T/ is thorn (take a "P" and move the bowl half way down the
stem) and /D/ is eth (D with a dash in the stem). Old English also had thorn
and eth. (I think in Middle English thorn changed shape to the "Greek Y", or
our modern "y".)
        If you mean the "soft-T" and "soft-D", Czech does this. It's the
T-hacek and D-hacek. (Though in lower case letters, the t and d are usually
followed by an apostrophe.) However, Czech is Slavic, so I doubt this is
what you mean.

        Mike

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Mike Karapcik           *               Tampa, FL
Network Analyst         *               USF campus
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Research Center
ConlangCode: v1.1 CIT!h !u cG:M:R:S:G a+ y n29:2
B+++/R:Wic A+ E+ N1 Is/d K ia-:+ p-- s- m o P S----

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