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