ELL: Re: J in the Akha Script

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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:40:00 -0500
Subject: ELL: Re: J in the Akha Script
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     Dear Dave,
          Thank you for your off-list enquiry (encluded below) about the Akha
	       Baptist script.
	            I asked my friend about what I wrote, and he said I made
          the mistake
	       that you pointed out about the 'J'. 'J' is a voiced stop
          (africate
	       actually). There is a 'Y' symbol for the palatal continuant. I
          also
	       left out two phonemes: 'ts' and 'dz', which are
          alveolar/palatal
	       affricates. Akha rules about upper and lower case similar to
          English.

	       So the system should look like this for the Baptist Akha
	       script.

	            The script uses symbols like the following.
		         The consonant symbols arranged from bilabial through
		         glottal are:
			      p  py      t   ts  c       k       k'      ?
			           b  by      d   dz  j       g       g'
				                   s       sh
						                   z
								        m  my
		         n       ny      ng
			                 l       y

					      I replied on-list because I gave
					      everyone there the wrong
					      information
					           and I'd like to correct it.
						        Tom Tehan


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Subject: J in the Akha Script
Author:  dharris at las-inc.com at internet
Date:    16-03-99 12:22 PM


Just curious about J in the chart below. Why is it listed in the voiced
stops and liquids rows? Are there two phonetic values for J? Just curious.
Thanks for sending this orthography. I'm very curious to see Matthew
MacDonald's orthography, as well.

Thanks,
Dave Harris
Washington, DC


     The script uses symbols like the following.
          The consonant symbols arranged from bilabial through glottal are:
	       p  py      t       c       k       k'      ?
	            b  by      d       j       g       g'
		                    s       sh
				                    z       y
						         m  my      n       ny
          ng
	                  l       j

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