> On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 19:15:53 -0800, bob thornton
> <arcanesock@...> wrote:
>
> >I am making a language supposedly discovered in the
> >late 1800's by Germans on an island south of the
> >island Mafia on the coast of Tanzania. It includes
> >"whistlized" consonants, where labialization was
> taken
> >to such a degree that the w-sound is now a whistle,
> a
> >voiced whistle in the case of a voiced "whistlized"
> >consonant.
>
> A German style orthography would look like this:
>
> The phonemes are:
> (plosives)
> /p/ p
> /b/ b
> /t/ t
> /d/ d
> /k/ k
> /g/ g
> /q/ q
> (nasals)
> /m/ m
> /n/ n
> /N/ ng
> (fricatives)
> /P/ f
> /B/ w
> /T/ th
> /D/ dh
> /s/ s
> /s_m/ ß
> /z/ s (no distinction from /s/ made in spelling)
> /z_m/ ß
> /C/ ch
> /j\/ jh
> /x/ ch (no distinction from /C/ made in spelling)
> /X/ qh
> /h/ h
> (laterals)
> /l/ l
> /L/ ll
> (approximate)
> /j/ j
> (rhotic)
> /rR\)/ r (This is a simultaneous r and R\... it is
> fun to pronounce.)
>
> (affricatives)
> /tT)/ tth
> /dD)/ tdh
> /ts)/ z
> /dz)/ ds
> /tC)/ tch
> /dj\)/ djh
> /kx)/ kch
> /qX)/ qqh
>
> ("whistlized")
> /s_m_W/ ßß (_W represents "whistlization")
> /z_m_W/ ßß
> /C_W/ chß
> /j\_W/ jhß
> /x_W/ chß
> /t_W/ tß
> /d_W/ dß
> /k_W/ kß
> /g_W/ gß
>
> Vowels are:
>
> /i/ i
> /I/ i (before double consonant or end of word)
> /e/ e
> /&/ ä
> /@/ e (before double consonant or end of word)
> /u/ u
> /O/ o
> /A/ a
>
> --
> Pascal A. Kramm, author of Choton
> official Choton homepage:
>
http://www.choton.org
>