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Re: lingual point of articulation, only lingual

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Friday, August 26, 2005, 11:05
Hi!

# 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> writes:
> Last night, I thought of something interesting. Being in the half of > the population that can roll his tongue, I already experienced to blow > air trough my rolled tongue, but tonight, I've realised for the first > time that it is a voiceless fricative!
It's not exactly voiced, but: I can whistle that way. :-)
>... > So because of the incapacity of a half of the population to pronounce > them, I guess no natlangs use such phonemes but did some conlangers > use them? >...
Or maybe because it takes a long time to prepare the tongue for that sound? Let's call that phone [$]. Now pronounce [$u$a$sta], please. :-))) **Henrik

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Steven Williams <feurieaux@...>
Adam Walker <carrajena@...>