Re: Voicing Continuum (was: Linguistic Terminology)

Kristian Jensen wrote:
> That's what's so special about Australian languages! They completely
> lack fricatives! (Someone here in Conlang-L once said 'its too hot
> down there for all that friction'). Its rare among the world's
> languages, yet this is nevertheless true for Australian.
> Furthermore, the feature of voicing is completely unimportant to
> Australian languages.
Now I remember reading that they had no fricatives.  So, *all* their
sounds are voiced?  Interesting!

> Instead, Australian languages have an
> incredible number of contrasting places of articulation
Yeah, I remember reading that as well.  I've considered in previous
langs having lots of POA's, but those ideas never got anywhere.

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