Re: The beautifulest phonology

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Dirk Elzinga wrote:

> At 1:35 PM -0800 03/19/02, jesse stephen bangs wrote:
> >Muke Tever sikayal:
> >
> >  > From: "Frank George Valoczy" <valoczy@...>
>
> Yeah, well you're all wrong. The most beautiful phonology in in the
> world is the Goshute dialect of Shoshoni. Here's the inventory:
>
> p  tT  t     k  k_w
>         s             h
> m      n
>            j      w
>
>
> i  1  u
> e     o
>     a
>
> So there.
>
I must say, it's not bad. But it would be a bit nicer if you bring the
back vowels forward and take those ugly /p/'s and /k/'s out of there, and
palatalise the /t/. ;)

---ferko