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> Van: Paul Bennett <Paul.Bennett@...>
> Aan: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
> Onderwerp: Re: New H/G lang?
> Datum: dinsdag 12 oktober 1999 10:53
>
Maybe
> I could lose the "Ejective/Implosive/Click" section of the MOA
dimensions,
> giving 3x4x2x3x3. That doesn't actually make much difference, though,
does it?.
Keep the ejectives! There cool!
> I don't find myself using the Palatalised series very much when I'm
"riffing"
> for roots, so maybe that can go, too, leaving just the following
> differentiations:
>
> Post-Labialisation:
> On
> Off
>
> Part of mouth:
> Lips
> Teeth
> Palette
> Velum
>
> Tongue "Shape":
> Front
> Back
I don't understand this one. Isn't Front/Back a distinction in vowels?
> Voicing/Emphasis:
> Reduced
> Normal
> Increased
>
> Method:
> Stop
> Nasal
> Fricative/Affricate
>
> This leaves me 164 consonants, which is better, but still a bit "out
there".
>
> >>>>>>
> > there's only two vowels, would i-bar and lowered-schwa be "realistic"
vowels?.
>
> Well, the only two-vowel languages I know of use /a/ or /A/ or some
> other low vowel plus schwa, but I don't see why i-bar and lowered-schwa
> couldn't work either.