Re: Dropping Q and C (was: Some isolating verb patterns)
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 19:57 |
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On Jan 19, 2005, at 9:08 PM, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> 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?
> 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.
Could it have been an _`ayn_ /?\/ instead?
Most transliterations schemes for Semitic languages seem to use
something that can look like a beginning single quote, or a superscript
"c", to represent `ayin.
-Stephen (Steg)
"the Goblin King discusses his lesson plans with NOBODY!"
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