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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