Re: Transliterating th
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 4, 1999, 15:48 |
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At 2:42 pm +0000 4/12/99, And Rosta wrote:
>Nik Taylor:
>> Doug Ball wrote:
>> > Any thoughts on borrowing this idea?
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>> Well, Fijian uses {c} for the sound /T/, IINM
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>& old & iberian Spanish
Yep - {c} is already used for quite a range of sounds in different
natlangs, e.g. inter alia: /k/, /ts/, /s/, /tS/, /tj/, /c/, /dZ/ and as a
click in the Nuguni langs; modern Castillian Spanish uses {c} = /T/ before
front vowels. So it seems a pretty obvious choice if you have no other job
for it to do.
The other possibility would be to use {z} - as Castillian does before back
vowels - which IIRC is also not used in Skerre.
Ray.
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