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Re: 'out-' affix in conlangs?

From:Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>
Date:Monday, August 11, 2008, 10:22
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> wrote:

> Tangentially, how does your J-less conlang transliterate the "J" sound in > "Jim" and "John"? I've done so by substituting "Z" [dz] for it in Cl. Ar.
I suppose you mean, in a conlang lacking the affricate /dZ/? In an artlang I haven't worked on for a while that had a very simple phonology I would probably transcribe it either as /C/ or /s/. In säb zjeda, it hasn't come up yet; if I end up nativizing names instead of marking them with quote particles that indicate the following word doesn't follow the usual phonotactic (or orthographic?) rules (the latter seems a more likely solution for an engelang like this), I would turn the affricate around and use /Zd/. (Morphemes in säb zjeda start with a fricative, which may optionally be followed by any approximant, nasal, or plosive with the same voicing.) Another artlang I've worked on more recently but still not very much would probably render it simply as /Z/. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/