Re: The beautifulest phonology

Frank Valoczy wrote:
>...in my opinion, regardless of whether it's likely or not, would be this:
>
>Vowels:
>
>i y 2 E a
>
>Consonants
>
>t_j d_j n_j F T D S Z h x K K\ l L w j
>
>Naturally, it would be written in Cyrillic. :)
>
>I'm curious what would be those of others?
I didn't consciously set out to include my favourite phonemes, but the
Tairezazh inventiry nonetheless comes pretty close:

i E a O u
e: A: o:
ei ai au oi ou
p b t d k g f v T D s z S Z ts dz tS dZ m n l r

/t/, /d/ /s/ etc are properly dental in Tairezazh, but swapping them for
alveolars would make little difference.

However, Tairezazh phonotactics is less to my liking - I doesn't actually
like words like /dZdad/ or /sktESk/ or /ranzdz/, but they're not too
uncommon in Tairezazh. Anyways, the language wouldn't be the same without
them.

                                                  Andreas

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