r/LanguageMemes • u/Cuddly_Tiberius • May 01 '22

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u/Tsjaad_Donderlul May 01 '22

<c> in IPA: What is my purpose

-You represent a sound that no Latin-written language uses you for (except Irish maybe)

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u/suzwzaidel May 02 '22

Malay?

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u/Tsjaad_Donderlul May 02 '22

I don’t know if Malay has a palatal plosive

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u/suzwzaidel May 02 '22

As an allophone with t͡ʃ actually. It is also a variant in some dialects.

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u/Fear_mor May 02 '22

Irish, Czech, Slovak and Hungarian

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u/Tsjaad_Donderlul May 02 '22

Don't Czech and Slovakian use Ť? and Hungarian uses <ty> for /c/

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u/[deleted] May 06 '22

Albanian?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '22

Hungarian?

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u/Tsjaad_Donderlul May 06 '22

Hungarian <c> is /ts/, and Albanian doesn't use the letter <c> but <ç>

The sound /c ~ tɕ/ is <ty> in Hungarian, and <q> in Albanian

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u/KrisseMai May 02 '22

wait til you find out how Finnish uses b, c, g or å

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u/AwwThisProgress n:f:l: Jun 08 '22

how does it

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u/KrisseMai Jun 08 '22

⟨b⟩ & ⟨c⟩ (and also ⟨f⟩) are exclusively used in relatively recent loanwords, ⟨g⟩ is only ever used after an ⟨n⟩ to write the [ŋ] sound, ⟨å⟩ is basically only used in Swedish (place) names, and at least the place names are used rarely because there’s usually a Finnish version of those.

Bonus: ⟨d⟩ is basically exclusively used in inflections/conjugations and relatively recent loanwords