Re: OT: A project

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!)

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