Re: USAGE: Beijing (was: USAGE: RE: [CONLANG] A BrSc a? & Nyuu Romaji)

From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>

> Well, truly and properly the change was [k] > [tS], i.e.
> Pinyin g -> Pinyin j, via a palatalized [k].   "Peking" is both
> W-G *and* archaic, really.
Not quite. Pinjin j = [tC] where C is a c-curl (what's the SAMPA letter
again?). Pinjin zh = [ts`] with a retroflexed sibilant, which is more like
[tS] at least the way I pronounce it.

This by the way is important in Tech, because I have retroflex affricates
(and the voiceless fricative -- these can be pronounced as palatoalveolars)
as well as palatal stops that become alveolopalatal affricates in some
dialects. Imagine Pinyin zh, ch, sh vs. j, q, x, but make zh and j ejectives
and add voiced counterparts (zzh, jj).

~Danny~