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.
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