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Re: Dropping Q and C (was: Some isolating verb patterns)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, January 17, 2005, 20:58
Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> On Sunday, January 16, 2005, at 11:35 , B. Garcia wrote: > > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 17:50:31 +0000, Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> > > wrote: > [snip] > >> Frater which, like Gary's conlang, is isolating and takes the bulk of > >> its > >> vocabulary from Latin & Greek, certainly does not adhere to Latin > >> spelling. > >> It uses "K" or "S" for Latin C (it doesn't have semivowels, so Latin > >> QV > >> is rendered simply as "K"). > > > > I personally dig using K wherever possible. > > So do I :)
I've been known to use both - Meghean uses 'c', but most of my other conlangs use 'k' for /k/. Classical Vaikin, in a 'bout of exceeding boringness uses 'k' for /k/ and 'c' for /c/.
> > I could've done it in > > Montreiano, but to give that "related to Spanish feel" i felt I needed > > to keep similar spelling conventions (although mine are a little more > > like how Old Spanish used to be spelt). > ====================================================== > > On Monday, January 17, 2005, at 12:46 , Tristan McLeay wrote: > [snip] > >> I will use C when it's appropriate (for giving a certain flavor), but > >> as my tastes tend towards non-European style languages, K usually > >> gives it that non-European flavor i'm looking for. > > Non-European? But K is used extensively in all the Germanic languages > except English, in all the Slav langs, the Baltic langs, in Finnish & > Hungarian, and in minority langs like Basque, Breton and Cornish (in the > Kemmyn spellings, which is the most widely used spelling). I reckon that > counts for by far the larger part of Europe. > > Maybe you mean non-Anglo-Romance ;)
Well, 'k' isn't exactly rare in English either, is it?
> > I just reckon C's underrated, that's all ;) > > How so? While K almost invariably denotes only /k/ in both natlangs and > conlangs, C has had a great time denoting all sorts of other sounds such > as /s/, /ts/, /tS/, /S/, /dZ/, /T/, /|\/ and, I am sure, some others > besides /k/ - not bad for a letter than began its life as /g/ :)
In Swedish before front vowels, 'k' denotes the phoneme traditionally transcribed as /C/, most commonly realized as [s\] (but [S] in my 'lect). Andreas

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