Re: Q & X

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 23:50:51 +0200, Tero Vilkesalo
<teronpostilaatikko@...> wrote:

>Hi to all!
>
>I am new on the list. I followed your discussion here a little in the
summer
>and then again in december. This really is a most interesting forum!
>
>My name is Tero Vilkesalo and I am a 20-year-old boy from Helsinki,
Finland.

Hi, Tero, welcome to the list, and I hope we'll hear about your conlangs!

>It's been interesting to see how the Finnish language is being mentioned
>here.
Did you notice some people say they feel a Finnish flower in the
Galvinic dialects I've just sketched? Funny, for langs actually derived
from Arabic ;)

I must check if the recent cyclon in Moscow came from the Baltic ;)

<...>
>And now to a real question. Which sounds do you write with the letter Q or
X
>in your a priori conlangs with Latin alphabet?
For me, q is any stop (or affricate) and x any spirant (except labials in
both cases) for which no other Roman letter fits ;)

In Albanian, q is voiceless palatal stop/affricate, and x is [d_z].

But, actually, I wouldn't mind any other use if the whole orthography is
consistent.


Basilius