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

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 30, 2000, 1:22
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.
> 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-).
Most of the other ASCII-ifications use /J/ for that, and another symbol, like /n"/ for palatal nasal. -- "Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor