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From:Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 20, 2001, 14:23
> Voiced whistles. It's interesting you should mention those; I was just > having a discussion about them yesterday. They're interesting little > noises. Maybe I'll do one of those freaky conlangs we've been talking > about
I've been musing about making a freaklang too, with all sorts of non-trivial articulation points and creaky vowels etc... but first I've got to bring Obrenje into a somehow stable state, and give it some vocabulary.
> with a whole whistle series (though for the life if me I cannot pronounce > a > velar whistle, and the closest to a palatal I can get is a hiss), though I > don't know how one would romanize that, and I'm a stickler for nice > orthography.
Ummm... how about an articulation point flag (p, t, c, r, k, q, for bilabial, dental, palatal, retroflex, velar and uvular?) followed by the degree symbol (°)? -- Christian Thalmann -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net -- GMX Tipp: Machen Sie Ihr Hobby zu Geld bei unserem Partner 1&1! http://profiseller.de/info/index.php3?ac=OM.PS.PS003K00596T0409a