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On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Eamon Graham <robertg@hidden.email> wrote: > Essentially, I'm soliciting ideas for dealing with labial-velar > consonant clusters. My language's phonology is pretty basic, and > doesn't have complex consonant clusters, but its earlier (con)historical > stage did. For example, if I have a word such as /ik_wti/ but would > like to maintain its distinction with the a word such as /ikti/, what > might I do? I thought of turning the labial into a vowel: /ikuti/. > Another idea I had was perhaps something like /ikw@ti/. Also consider shifting the place of articulation, e.g. to fully labial: /ipti/. (I think Greek did /k_w/ --> /t/, for example.) Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@hidden.email>