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> It just struck me that it wd be especially appropriate to allow the 4 > affricates above, because they could all have a letter assigned to them in > the future, and, unlike the ck, jb, etc., they are often regarded as a > single phoneme anyway. Tc and Dj all over the place, ts in German, Russian, > etc, and dz in Mandarin. Just two minor corrections: tc and dj are not considered phonemes "all over the place", just think of French; and /dz/ doesn't exist in Mandarin (only <z> /ts/ and <c> /tsh/); /dz/ is used e.g. in Georgian. Best regards, Javier