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Re: kinsi rorotan: dialects and script

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 15, 2002, 20:18
En réponse à Pablo David Flores <pablo-flores@...>:

> > Actually, no. [j\] is the voiced palatal fricative. AFAIK there's > no SAMPA for the voiced palatal stop (though you can use [c_v], > where [_v] is the voiced diacritic). >
OK, I've checked my X-SAMPA chart, and it gives [j\] for the palatal fricative and [J\] for the palatal stop. I just exchanged them :)) .
> > Besides Christophe's example ([ka] -> [tSa]), there's Japanese > /tu/ = [tsM]. But you're definitely right (I wouldn't have any of > those in a conlang of mine for fear of being unnaturalistic, if > I didn't know). >
LOL Once again, languages are here to prove universals wrong ;))) .
> I do have a double change related to this in one of the sister > languages > of my Senu Yivokuchi: [x] > [s] / _[+front] AND [s] > [x] / _[+back]. >
If those changes occured simultaneously, wasn't there a period where confusions were possible? Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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