Re: my phonology

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@H...> wrote:

> Only a few languages? I don't know, for me they seem different but it is
> maybe that by peaking frensh I know the uvular voiced fricative and
that I
> can easily notice that the other is different. Anyway, it must not
be much
> similar for others...
Some few people around here use [G] instead of the more common
[R] and even more common [4] for "r" (I did it too until in the
middle of primary school, when the teacher realized it and
inadvertantly made me a curiosity...  I then learned and
switched to [4] within days ;-).  [G] for "r" sounds strange. I
can well imagine a/G/-/R/ contrast in a language.



> Yes I like it too, it sounds special for the earers
Earers...  LOL, that's a cute typo.  Do you also call your
speakers "mouthers"?  ;o)


If you're aiming for conciseness, how about adding a very
simple form of tone?  Using three pitch levels (neutral, high,
low), you can triple the number of available syllables, and
they don't even slow down speech (rising or falling tones, for
example, require a certain minimal vowel length to be heard
well).  Even if you're not a speaker of a tonal language, you
can probably learn to deal with such a basic tone system
rather quickly.



-- Christian Thalmann