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Jorge Llamb�as, On 08/10/2012 18:15:
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 1:38 PM, selpa'i<seladwa@hidden.email> wrote:Am 08.10.2012 18:05, schrieb Jorge Llamb�as:"y" is [j] (and I think Mike proposed it could also be [y] in lujvo). We only defined a few interjections with w-, but I mentioned that I would probably like to add some with y- too.Oh, okay. A shame that there are so few letters in the latin alphabet. :) I would prefer if every letter had just one pronunciation, but there aren't any letters left if you don't introduce diacritics.[j] and [y] would be allophones in Xorban.
That's quite an extreme position. We can't scrutinize it yet, because we don't yet have an agreed phonology, but for [j] and [y] to be allophones of a phoneme in contrast with the phoneme with allophone [i] looks to be on shaky ground. --And.