Re: Thagojian phonology (was Re: oh no, not Tech phonology again)

The first of a series of posts correcting earlier ones of mine.

>>Also AFAICT, The Modern Yi syllabary seems to have just about the same
>>distribution plan for nasals as Thagojian, though with the addition of
>>prenasalised voiced affricates, and the use of slightly fewer POAs.
>
>It does... still quite a few points of articulation.  I had the list
>written
>down; I gotta go to the library and look it up again though.
Yi has labial, dental, velar, alveolar sibilant, retroflex and palatalized
sibilant.  A total of six poa's.  The entire phonology: p ph b mb hm m f v t
th d nd hn n hl l k kh g Ng h N x G ts tsh dz ndz s z ts. ts.h dz. ndz. s.
z. tc' tc'h dz' ndz' n' s' z' i e a A o @ u u: (umlaut) l: (syllabic
lateral) i: (again umlaut).  Tones are high (55), mid (33, allophone 34) and
low (21); the umlauted vowels may only be mid tone.

However, Western Hmong, which is written in the (more or less)
recently-invented Pollard script, has six poa's (labial, dental, lateral,
retroflex, velar and uvular), but eight if you separate dental from dental
sibilant, and retroflex from retroflex sibilant with palatized sibilant
allophones before front vowels.  Its entire phonology is: p ph f v hm m mp w
t th ts tsh s z hn n nt nts tl tlh hl l ntl t. t.h ts./tc' ts.h/tc'h s./c'
z. z'/y nt. nts./ntc' k kh x G hN N Nk q qh Nq ? h i I e ei y Y oei ie W
(high back unrounded) @ a ai u o au.  Forgot what the tones are.

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