Re: another new conlang

 --- Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote: >
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)
Okay.  So how would you describe the sound I'm making
if I make my lips meet in the middle, and let air
escape out the sides - either for a fricative or an
approximant?

Rachel


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