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Re: A BrSc a?

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Monday, April 29, 2002, 12:57
>===== Original Message From Constructed Languages List >> >[x] isn't exactly uncommon either, esp'ly if you include [G X] etc >> >as valid variants. That'd solve {c} and {x}. Possibly [N] for {q}? >> >>The trouble with [G] is that it tends to become zero, or [j] before front >>vowels. > >Well, unless you've got a /j/ phoneme [G]>[j] isn't a problem. Even [G]>zero >wouldn't necessarily spell trouble if you've got a strict CV syllable >structure. But both would be really strange allophones of /x/!
Hmmm... [G] is an allophone of /x/ in Ibraan, as initial fricatives are voiced. (And [x] is a realization of /X/ in nonciulaadt dialects) wd mnng phnmc phntc-NRC phntc-NC juig "game" /xVHX/ [GVHX] [GOjx]
>(remind me to include [x]~[j] variation on one language or another. Could >happen in some dialect of Steienzh, where you already get things like _zaux_ >[zaUx] "star", pl "zaughen" [zaUGn=] (Steienzh spelling being rather more >phonetic than phonemic).)
hmm, looks like Ibraan pluralization: *saux "??" /so:C/ [zoUS] [zo:C] *sauges "??" /"so:CV/ [zoUZ] ["zO:.J\V] or better, with a known word: <dux> "duke" /dYC/ [dIS] [dYC] <duges> "dukes" /"dY.CV/ [diZ] ["dy.J\V] and with the [x]/[G] mess: <huig> "fire" /hVHX/ [hVHX] [Ojx] <huiges> "fires" /"hVH.XV/ [hVHR] ["Oj.GV] (Yeah, I could easily see <huig> <huiges> becoming misspelled <uig> <uyes> outside the city...) *Muke! -- http://www.frath.net/ Ne s'enraye el tigre!