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

From:Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 29, 2000, 22:49
taliesin the storyteller wrote:

> * Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...> [000829 08:59]: > > You know Matt, I love seeing different writing systems. I'd really like to > > see yours whenever you get a copy up. And yeah, i got excited over your > > Latin transcription, because i had not seen someone give c the /S/ value > > and edh the /dj/ value before in a conlang ;). > > `c' rare for /S/? Both my lang târuven and big old Lojban does that. > (`j' is used for /Z/ in both btw.) `q' for /N/ is both in t. and the > conlang Ceqli, http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7429/. The > latter uses `x' for /S/, now that's cool.
Mam (a Mayan language) uses <x> for the voiceless retroflex fricative, and, to me strangely, uses the digraph <xh> for /S/.
> The use of eth is something, though :)
Are there any other strange uses for <ð>? ====================================== Tom Wier | "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero." ======================================