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

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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