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

Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> Your memory is spot on! I should have added /D/ to the list of sounds that
> natlangs represent with |c| besides the original /k/ (also /g/ in early
> Latin spelling). I now make that list:
> [c], [s], [ts], [tS], [dZ], [T], [D], [|\]
>
> Any others in natlangs?
Well, Pinyin [ts_h] is from the Mandarin POV a different beast from [ts].

I Somali girl I met spelt the name of her hometown as |Galkacyo|, which she near
as I could tell at the time pronunced as [galkaja]. My map spells it |Galka'yo|.
I suppose this means that there's a transliteration scheme using |c| for a
glottal stop, a sound I have always found hard to register.

Another Somali girl I knew's name was |Deqa| [de:xa], which I suppose gives you
another natlang use of |q|.

                                                          Andreas

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