Re: The beautifulest phonology

En réponse à Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>:

> ...in my opinion, regardless of whether it's likely or not, would be
> this:
>
> Vowels:
>
> i y 2 E a
>
No back vowels, but two front rounded? Interesting...

> Consonants
>
> t_j d_j n_j F T D S Z h x K K\ l L w j
>
Is this in X-SAMPA? If so, I suppose F stands for the labiodental nasal! :))) I
can see you have quite a weakness towards fricatives :)) . And the absence of
bilabial sounds is quite striking! Is it related to the absence of back
vowels? :))

> Naturally, it would be written in Cyrillic. :)
>
Naturally :)) .

> I'm curious what would be those of others?
>
Well, I have to think about it, but it would probably be quite different :))) .
I would probably have back vowels (rounded AND unrounded :)) ) and bilabial
sounds (maybe even a bilabial trill :)) ). I would add clicks for good measure
(even though I have difficulties to pronounce them) as well as syllabic
consonants and even prenasalised stops :)) . Usually my languages take only a
subset of my ideal phonology (because my ideal phonology would probably be
nothing else than the full IPA, with all characters using all diacritics
possible :))) ).

Still, I particularly like the phonemic inventory of Itakian:
stops: p t k ? (t is alveolar)
fricatives: P s x h (P is a bilabial fricative)
liquids: j w r n (can also be syllabic i u r= n=)
vowels: a e o

It looks minimalistic, but this language has a lot of allophonic and even
dialectal variations (there's even a dialect that replaces all the stops with
clicks and all the fricatives with stops :)) ).

Christophe.

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