Re: The two types of "palatal" consonants in our conlangs
From: | Douglas Koller, Latin & French <latinfrench@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 15:55 |
Danny wrote:
>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)?
Géarthnuns has:
/dz/ /ts/ /s/ /z/
/dZ/ /tS/ /S/ /Z/
/C/ /C<vcd>/
/dC<vcd>/ and /tC/ may occur before some front vowels, I think, but
not phonemically.
Kou