Re: [bpfk] Question on {z} vs. {dz} and {ts}

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Gleki Arxokuna scripsit:

> Today I was reminded of one "flaw" in phonology namely, the presense of [z]
> in Lojban.

If we go down that road there is no end to it.  English has no /x/,
Arabic has no /b/, Chinese not only lacks /z/ but also /h/ and the
sounds written "e" and "o" are more like Lojban "y" and "uy".
Spanish has no /y/ nor /c/.  Hindi is missing /h/, as is Russian.
Finally all that would be left is p~b, t~d, g~k, and a, i, u.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing
on my shoulders.  --Hal Abelson

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BPFK" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bpfk-list+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to bpfk-list@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bpfk-list.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.