Re: Zaik! (Hi there!) - Description of Lyanjen
From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
Date: | Thursday, August 31, 2000, 6:38 |
Raymond Brown wrote:
> At 12:54 pm -0400 30/8/00, John Cowan wrote:
> >On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> >
> >> <c> for /S/ does have precedents -- Onondaga uses that. There are no
> >> conlangs AFAIK that do that, however.
> >
> >Lojban and Loglan do: "c" = /S/, "j" = /Z/.
>
> Yiklamu and Vorlin also use "c" and "j" the same was. Didn't Ro also use
> the symbols that way? I was under the impression - maybe mistakenly - that
> this was not an uncommon practice among north American conlangers.
Oh, it may be. I had just completely forgotten about Lojban (although I never
paid particular attention to the phonologies of auxlangs anyway, since they're usually
so contrived).
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