Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: retroflex consonants

From:Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>
Date:Monday, June 6, 2005, 8:22
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 09:51:02 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:

>All in all assimilation of dentals to a neighboring /r/ is >the most common source of retroflexes. It happens in >Swedish and Norwegian where |rt rd rn rs rl| are realized >as retroflexes (except in those dialects that have uvular >/R/)
In Ayeri, I have the strange need [coronal]+[coronal] => [[alpha]`] for some reason, e.g. [l] + [n] => [l`:]. So regarding your examples, my 'strange need' is not unjustified. Good to know. Carsten