Re: another new conlang

Rachel Klippenstein wrote:
> Your language is really heavy on laterals... if you
> wanted to be even more lateral-heavy, I think you
> could even throw bilabial laterals.  I know the IPA
> chart says they're impossible, but I've always
> wondered why, because I can make them way easier than
> lots of the sounds actually in the IPA.
It's a contradiction in terms.  What you're doing can't be a bilabial
lateral.  Laterals require the use of the tongue by their definition,
and bilabial is only lips.  Linguolabial laterals are possible (altho,
AFAIK, don't exist in any natlangs)

> It drives me crazy that the IPA doesn't have symbols
> for labiodental stops/plosives, because I use them all
> the time, by accident.  I've often caught myself
> saying things like "maybe" with labiodentals instead
> of bilabials.
Interesting.  The few times I've used them they're in place of /f/ and
/v/.  I believe you can write them with /f/ and /v/ along with the
"raised" diacritic, the one that looks like this: _|_, so [f_r] and
[v_r] in SAMPA.

The reason they don't have symbols is that, AFAIK, there are no known
languages that use those as phonemes.

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