Re: Affricatives

Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>  --- Piotr Blikli skrzypszy:
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>>One of my conlangs, currently called "Montanic", has a sound change where
>>each of the fricatives from its parent language, Khangathyagon, has become
>>the corresponding affricate. This includes a glottal affricate, which
>>sounds a bit like coughing when I try to pronounce it.
>>[...]
>>pf      tth  ts   ch            kkh     'h
>>[pf]    [tT] [ts] [tS]  [kx]    ['h]
>>bv      ddh  dz   j
>>[bv]    [dD] [dz] [dZ]
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> Does this mean that Montanic also has dental /t/ and /d/ (X-SAMPA: [t_d] and
> [d_d]?
Why should it? My English has [tT] (in e.g. fifth), but not dental /t/
and /d/ (except with [T]).

Tristan.