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

Danny Wier nevesht:>
>One of the features of the basic phonology of Tech is the distinction of
>two
>"palatal-class" consonants, which is also made in languages as diverse as
>Basque, Polish, Hungarian, Mandarin, Yi, blah blah blah.
>
>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)?
>
You missed the largest one, Mandarin
ch,zh,sh(retroflex) vs. q,j,x(alveolopalatal(|x|=c-curl)
some non-Beijing dialects have a third series(merged with q,j,x in
Beijing),palatoalveolar(tS_h,tS,S)

-Wayne Chevrier


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