nasalless and stopless language
From: | Joe Mondello <rugpretzel@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, July 19, 2000, 7:54 |
In light of the recent conversation about the non-existence and almost
non-existence of natlangs without plosives and nasals respectively, in
addition to recent developments within rodnús, I have been flirting with the
idea of developing a nasalless and stopless version/dialect of the language.
I am also having trouble finding the ascii symbol for a voiceless bilabial
fricative.
the changes are mostly straightforward, but some clusters change contrary to
the system. a basic example of the change would be:
kal' yox pram sorgebn~ fedzv~m~ r~ wam
/kal joS pram sOrgEbn- fEdzv-m- r- wam/
I-not want steal hot-dog television and VC2
which would then become
kal yox hwaw sorgevaz fejavú r~ waw
/xal joS PaB sOrGEvaz fEZavu BaB/
where P is a voiceless bilabial fricative (or is it F?). So is there a
reason for the universality of plosives and near-universality f nasals, or
can a language survive without them?
Joe Mondello