>From: BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
>Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:07:25 +0200
>
>Now imagine expanding this system to dentalveolar fricatives and stops:
>
>_t_ /t/
>_d_ /D/
>_dt_ /d/
>_td_ /T/
>
>The beauty of these digraphs is really that they are virtually impossible
>to pronounce as sequences of the values of their component letters!
>
Interesting system, but I wouldn't call them "virtually impossible to
pronounce as sequences of the values of their component letters". I used
/td/ and /dt/ extensively in Tvern El amd I can pronounce it fairly
fluently. Tvern El also uses /kg/ and /gk/ as well as /fv/ and /vf/. The
only initial consonants are t d k g f v and they can occur singlly or in any
combination of two except geminates.
It was/is a wacky little language that started out as a relex of ASL and
mutated from there.
Adam
>/BP 8^)>
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