Re: New Language - Altsag Venchet

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> I mean, there are for
> instance no voiceless labials, even though based on analogy with the
> dentals/alveolars and the velars one'd expect *p and *f to turn up.
Arabic has /b/ and /f/ but no /p/, hence the famous Bombay/Pompeii confusion.

> You might've also expected *dz to turn up.
German has /ts/ but not /dz/.

> Is "q" [q]? If so, it seems a bit lonely as the only uvular. If not, is it
> perhaps a glottal stop [?]? That'd be less "weird" symmetry-wise (seeing
> that voiced uvular stops are impossible), but the orthography would then be
> pretty original, and you'd better call particular attention that convention.
"q" is used for final glottal stop in transcribing Wu (Shanghainese); it is
the stunted mutant relic of former -p, -t, and -k.

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