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on 2/28/02 7:28 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:11:57AM -0700, Rex May - Baloo wrote: >> Everybody please take a look at >> http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/alph.htm >> >> And see if it all makes sense, particularly the stress rules, and if it's a >> sufficient guide to pronunciation and stress. > > According to the other "Txeqli" page I saw, "j" would be [Z]. I liked > that quite a bit better. Is there something wrong with using "dj" for > [dZ]? Essentially, it all comes from my conviction that hardly any languages contrast /Z/ and /dZ/, and consequently only the one is included. OTOH, the vast majority of languages do contrast /S/ and /tS/. > > If nobody will possibly accept another sound for "c", I suppose it might > have to be [tS]. Just make sure that "tx" is then not a permissible > cluster. Yes. it is not. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/