Re: my phonology
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 6, 2005, 17:01 |
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># 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> writes:
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>> bilab labioden alveo postalveo pala velar uvular glot
>> affricates 2 2 2 2 0 2 2 1
>>...
>> There are also the voiced and unvoiced linguo-labial plosives
Now there's a very complex consonant system!
No natural language has labiodental plosives, but this one contrasts even
labiodental affricates with bilabial affricates!
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 04:52:56 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
>Why no palatals? (I mean, I don't especially like their sound, but my
>L1 contains a few, and Icelandic, which I like a lot, so why not?).
To me it's not surpruising that a language with a velar-uvular contrast and
with a alveolar-postalveolar contrast lacks palatal sounds. The palate would
result exceedingly crowded.
kry@s:
j. 'mach' wust
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