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Re: pivor form idea



> 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