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> Come to think of it, why not have a contest ?Find a sound for 'c'. Already > rejected is the c as schwa, because a schwa just doesn't seem to fit into > the Txeqli phonology, except perhaps as an unstressed version of 'a', and > because it looks just awful. > We don't want it to be a combination of 2 sounds, because that was part of > the problem with it being /tS/. > And we don't want it to be, say /T/, because then we'd need another letter > for the voiced version. > > How about a click? Just kidding, I think. Well, of course I would propose a solution quite similar to the one in my own project (you Rex already know about it); that is, just a reaarangemente of some phoneme-letter assingments: change /j/-<y>, /S/-<x> and /Z/-<j>, into /j/-<j>, /S/-<c> and /Z/-<x>, thus assigning a convenient consonant value to <c> and freeing letter <y>, which was a vowel in origin and as such is considered in many languages (including English usage in such words as manY, bY, mY...). Then, it's quite easy to assing the schwa to the <y>, as in Lojban. Well, that's almost my own solution. I also added the change of /S/-->/tS/ and /Z/-->/dZ/, so that both sounds get more readily distinguished from /s/ and /z/. Well, that's possible because in my proposal the syllable structure is limites to CVC, so that no consonant clusters can appear within a syllable. I also added nasalization to the schwa, as in Cherokee, so that it becomes a vowel as clearly distinguishable from the other five as these are between themselves. Hope these suggestions may help. Best regards, Javier