Re: Revising my consonant inventory
| From: | John Vertical <johnvertical@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 13, 2007, 7:51 |
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>is 19 consonants a large inventory? (my dialect merges all voiced-unvoiced
>fricatives into unvoiced ones.)
Not at all. "Large" would be in the range of 30-40 to as much as 80+.
>actually I don't have trouble with the consonantal
>sounds I've encountered, /r/ however is something I can't even approximate.
A common problem if you don't have it in your L1, I gather. And not a rare
problem even in that case...
>I have one more question, is /?_h/ possible, or would that become /h/ within
>minutes?
Theoretically possible, but just as rare as an aspirated ejectiv (ie. not
attested at all in the wild AFAIK.)
>Then I might ditching /p/ alltogether and have /t k ?/ and /t_h k_h
>?_h/
>Nick Scholten
Do you *need* a 2x3 matrix for some purpose? If you do, just having /h/
pair... er, triple up with /th) kh)/ would not be unacceptable. And if you
don't, /th) kh) t k ?/ is perfectly OK too.
John Vertical
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