Re: The Story of Guper the Foolish Troll

On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:22:27 +0000 "Raymond A. Brown"
<raybrown@...> writes:
>Well, Patrick has said that Josh was right and that it is a velar
>nasal
>approximant.  As there is, it seems, some confusion whether it is
>'glottal'
>or velar, maybe it is a uvular nasal?
>
>Ray.
Well, just as an "And As For My Conlang..." message,

Rokbeigalmki has three nasals, transliterated as M, N, and NG.

M and N are simply /m/ and /n/.

NG is a *uvular* nasal /n"/.  It wasn't originally, but for some reason i
was unable to pronounce a velar nasal syllable-initially, it always came
out "deeper" than it did at the end of syllables.  So, once i learned a
little phonology, i figured out what it was, and i decided to make that
the standard, because it sounds cooler.
It also forces your jaw to move a lot during speech, especially with
preceding front vowels, like in _nyeng_ /njEn"/, "yes".

It also has a habit of uvularizing following velar stops, so that in
something like _azoi'nyih-peiwang ka'dhu_ "i don't think like that", the
_peiwang ka'_ comes out as /pejwan" qa/ instead of /pejwan" ka/.


-Stephen (Steg), who when he signed his senior banner wrote a little
"steg" in the Rokbeigalmki alphabet next to it :)

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