Re: The Romanized Orthography of My Conlang

R. Nierse wrote:
>
> I'm intruiged by langs that 'miss' something: Hawai'ian: has p, k , ?. It
> lacks t!
> Other examples: Sentani:
> p       t       k
>         d                       (no b or g)
>
> Rotokas:
> p       t       k
>                 g               (no b or d)
>
> Chuave:
>         t       k               (no p)
> b       d                       (no g)
>
        And don't forget Classical Arabic:
        t       k       q
        t'      k' (is there an emphatized k in Arabic, I don't remember)
b       d
        d'

but no p and no g.

> Only /zh/, /ch/, /j/ I cannot explain. I think I don't want to, I like it
> the way it is.
>
> > >
> > > The same general principle applies to the voiced consonants you
> > > have (<g>, <zh>, and <j>).  In each case, you have a single consonant
> > > in a category, which is statistically unlikely as natural language
> > > change goes.
> > >
> What is the name of your language?
> Do you have a grammar?
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