Re: New Conlang: S4
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 6, 2001, 2:13 |
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At 10.17 p.m. 5.10.2001, you wrote:
>(some dialects of Itakian have pre-aspirated 'liquids' - liquids are /r/,
>/n/, /j/ and /w/ in Itakian -, but other dialects replace them with normal
>liquids), and not difficult to transcribe :) .
Aren't these fairly common? Old English had them, didn't it? At least, /hr/
(The cognate word for 'right' maybe?), /hl/ (its cognate word for 'laugh'
and 'loaf') and /hw/ (hw&t). And Modern English has /hj/, and /hw/ in some
conservative dialects.
(Incidental note to Christophe: you don't put a comma before or after an em
dash.)
Tristan
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