Phonetic languages?

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Re: Phonetic languages?

Postby linguoboy » 2014-04-26, 14:37

Youngfun wrote:But... they had <C> and <K> for the same sound.

IIRC, the earliest usage was K before A, Q before V, and C elsewhere. So the usage was phonetic (rather than phonemic). /k/ tends to have a range of allophones (from labialised to pharyngealised) in many languages.
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Re: Phonetic languages?

Postby mōdgethanc » 2014-04-26, 21:53

I don't know what allophone /k/ would have before /a/ that would be especially noticeable, though.
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Re: Phonetic languages?

Postby linguoboy » 2014-04-27, 2:07

mōdgethanc wrote:I don't know what allophone /k/ would have before /a/ that would be especially noticeable, though.

Q was also used before /o(ː)/, so it probably represented a labialised variant whereas C was palatalised and K was produced without any secondary articulation.
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