Re: USAGE: No rants! (USAGE: di"f"thong)

n 5/31/06, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> Using 'x' for /S/ is common in Iberoromance, altho in Spanish it's gone >[x] and
> mostly got respelt as 'j'. For reasons that should need little explanation, the
> convention is also common in Mesoamerican languages.
It also (kind of) comes up in Pinyin -- |x| is not /S/ but (IIRC)
/s\/, but hey, voiceless sibilant.

> I'm not aware of any language using 'c' for /S/
Lojban does -- and it also has |tc| and |dj| clusters (= /tS, dZ/). So
that bit looked familiar to me.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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