Re: kinsi rorotan: dialects and script

>From: Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
>Robert B Wilson wrote:
> > /k/ is pronounced [C] before /i/, /y/, and /u/, and [k] before
> > /a/, /e/, and /o/.
>
>Before /u/ is a strange environment for /k/ to be pronounced [C].  I'd
>expect it to be before front vowels, or perhaps just before high front
>vowels.  That is, before /i/, /y/, and possibly /e/.
A'course, one could conjure up an historical explanation. Perhaps [i y u]
used to be [i 2 y] in the good ol' days. This'd probably require that [e]
also was something else, or you'd expect it to behave like [2].

                                                           Andreas

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