Re: Zaik! (Hi there!) - Description of Lyanjen

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Matt McLauchlin wrote:
> > What would be a corresponding monophthongal phone for /dj/?
>
> Monophthong is used for vowels, not consonants.  But, a single sound
> would be the palatal stop or /dZ/, since affricates may be treated as
> single sounds.
Except that he's talking about a voiced palatalized dental stop here.
But Nik's still right:  the palatalized voiced obstruent /d^j/ has double
articulation, where diphthongs have different places of articulation
at different times, and a glide between.

Matt wrote:

> > Hm, now that I look, I find such a thing as a voiced palatal plosive, a
> > difficult consonant which I can't find in X-SAMPA (its IPA glyph looks like
> > a small capital J with a line through it - call it J-).
If you're looking for transcription systems, Matt, Look here:
<http://www.cs.brown.edu/~dpb/ascii-ipa.html>

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