Re: Two questions about Esperanto
| From: | Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 9, 2004, 15:16 |
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On Jul 9, 2004, at 8:41 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Yup, that'd be much more sensible. That's what I do in transcribing
> one
> of my conlangs, in fact. Does any natlang regularly use an orthography
> where <j>=/dz/?
Tohono O'odham (spoken in Southern Arizona and adjacent Mexico). Some
examples:
cemaj [tS1madZ] 'small'
ge'ej [g1?1dZ] 'big'
hajuñ [hadZuJ] 'cousin, relative'
je'e [dZ1?1] 'mother'
ju:k [dZu:k] 'raining'
nawoj [nawOdZ] 'friend'
wecij [w1tSidZ] '(being) young'
Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga
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Grammatica vna et eadem est secundum substanciam in omnibus linguis,
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