Re: The two types of "palatal" consonants in our conlangs

Danny Wier sikyal:

> There are four classes of "sibilant-range" affricates and fricatives, given
> below:
>
> Alveolar: dz ts ts_> s z (n r l)
> Postalveolar (retroflex): dZ tS tS_> S Z
> Palatal: dz' ts' ts'_> s' z' (n' r' l')
> Lateral: dl tK tK_> K l
>
> What other natlangs and conlangs have at least the distinction of the
> postalveolar and palatized sibilants (or the palatoalveolar and
> alveolopalatal)?
Tzingrizil does, though rather oddly.  The dental series, when
"palatalized", results in affricates or post-alveolars/retroflexes, while
the velar series results in palatals.  Eg:

 t   d   s   z   l   r   ts
 |   |   |   |   |   |   |
 ts  dz  S   Z   L   z`  tS

 k   g   h
 |   |   |
 tC  dj\ C

This is an a priori conlang, but it was designed to look and feel like
Slavic.

Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu

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