Re: Mutable R's

From: "Arthaey Angosii" <arthaey@...>

> When I started out, /r/ was my American rhotic [r\] with occasional
Spanish
> trilling [r] influence around consonant clusters.  Then I took German 101
> and I began noticing my Asha'illen R's going toward the uvular [R\] (or is
> it just [R]? I'm unsure).  Once I realized what was going on, the R's
> decided to try disappearing altogether British R-drop style.
>
> Help!
>
> Maybe some R-statistics would be of help in convincing the Asha'illen R to
> settle down.  Or other people's experiences.  Or something.  Anything!  :(
How many rhotics are there in Asha'ille? I have two conlangs in the works
with the extremes: LANKA with no rhotics (except as a possible allophone of
/l/), and Tech with alveolar trill, alveolar tap, retroflex flap, and the
pseudo-rhotic voiced uvular fricative and retroflex-class affricates, nasal,
lateral and semivowel -- all with palatized, labialized, and possibly
voiceless-aspirated and glottalized variants.

I gravitate towards the alveolar trill/tap myself for most languages by
default. Maybe it's that Scottish blood in me.

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