Re: Rotokas (was: California Cheeseburger)

"Mark P. Line" wrote:
> I didn't know that was common in East Papuan. Do you have a reference?
Isn't it Oceanic?

Actually, I shouldn't've said "many others", as I only know of a couple,
such as the language of Kiribati (/kiribasi/, if I'm not mistaken)

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> >> The question would still remain as to why it's written as 's' and not as
> >> 't'.
> >
> > Why not?  The standard romanization of many languages includes
> > subphonemic distinctions.
>
> I can't think of any examples right now in modern, phonologically
> engineered orthographies. Can you remind me of some?
Japanese with chi (/ti/), tsu (/tu/), shi (/si/), ji (/zi/), fu (/hu/).
Korean with the distinction between "k/g", "p/b", and "t/d".  Although,
on second thought, I suppose those wouldn't count as "modern,
phonologically engineered orthographies".

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