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Appologies to those of you who will get two copies of this message. I have the following initial phoneme inventory for consonants: / p t k / / p\ B T D x G / / s z / / m n / / w l j / / r / I need to try and hammer a Gallo-Romance based language into that shape, and there are a few Romance phonemes I'm struggling to fit. If a speaker only has the above phonemes readily available, do you think the following approximate pronunciations are likely? /S/ > /T/ /Z/ > /D/ /ts/ > /s/ /dz/ > /z/ /tS/ > /x/ /dZ/ > /G/ Or do you think any of the sounds might be distinctive enough to the speakers's ears, and easy enough to accurately 'mimic', that a couple of new phonemes might be added to the inventory (e.g. /S/, /Z/)? Any thoughts/alternative suggestions greatly received! Pete