Re: The beautifulest phonology

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> 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? :))
Yes, it is X-SAMPA, and yes, I do like fricatives, especially the ones
produced further forward in the mouth. As for the bilabials, I don't know
if it's related to the absence of back vowels, I'm just not very fond of
them.

---ferko