Re: Conlang with whistles
| From: | Paul Roser <pkroser@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 20, 2003, 19:03 |
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On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 20:31:10 -0500, Rachel Klippenstein
<estel_telcontar@...> wrote:
>Hi out there,
>
>I came up with a neat idea for a new conlang the other
>day. This one is spoken on an island inhabited by two
>thinking, speaking species: humans, and a type of
>birds called in this language "WiSiWiSi". The
>phonology of the language is a sort of compromise
>between the sounds that humans and WiSiWiSi can make.
>
>Here is a description of the main dialect:
>
>Consonants
>three stops: p, t, k
>two normal continuants: w, s
>two whistled continuants: W and S
>
>W is a "typical" labial whistle, and S is an alveolar
>whistle.
I've played around with the idea of whistles in conlangs
for a while, and usually consider there to be three or
four possibilities:
1) labial (though all of my whistles involve rounding)
2) retroflexed (probably equal to your alveolar)
3) front trilled (superimpose an alveolar trill on the whistle)
4) back trilled (superimpose a uvular trill on the whistle)
if you added non-whistled forms as well, you could have
/r, R/ for the front trill and /x, X/ for the back trill.
Bfowol
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