Re: OT: A project

Am 09/12 11:25  Roger Mills yscrifef:
> Andrew wrote:
>
>
> >I'm looking at a project and I'm wondering if this range of sounds would
> >be unnatural:
> >
> >p, b, t, d, k, g
> >B, v, s, D, G, h
> >tS, dZ
> >m, n, l, r, y
> >
> >I started looking at Hindi placenames and thinking: Hmmm, I wonder what
> >it would sound like if those aspirated stops were fricatives...?  Can
> >/B/ and /v/ coexist?  Or should I expect them to crunch together?
>
> They probably can coexist (and I see David P. has provided an ex.); an
> alternative might be B,D,G, w,s,h.  Or, if B,D,G < *bh, dh, gh, why not have
> f, s, h as the voiceless counterparts, < original *ph, th, kh?  (That's
> beginning to look a lot like proto-Kash!)
>
Hmmm.  At the moment I'm working from AH4 on line.  How do I introduce
voiceless aspirates to that vocabulary?  I'm not sure of an orthography
for /B/ either, so I'm open to suggestions.

A further tidbit, my first paradigm in this project:

To Be, as used before an object noun:

me, I am
mes, we are
te, X is
vas jorte te, you are (respectful)
v&s te, you are
se, thou art (familiar)
inte, they are
_Inte_ cannot be used with a subject, _te_ is used instead.

I'm beginning to like the range of sounds I've selected for this
language.  It looks so screwy.

- andrew.
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