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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. What about the Arabic sound transcribed as 'q'? (I think an uvular stop.) I think this sound is interesting, but might be too 'strange' for an IAL, so it's only a half-hearted reccomendation. -- Alexander Browne | alexbrowne@hidden.email Saint Paul, Minn., U.S.