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Re: New H/G lang?

From:R. Nierse <rnierse@...>
Date:Monday, October 11, 1999, 11:58
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> Van: Christophe Grandsire <grandsir@...> > Aan: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...> > Onderwerp: Re: New H/G lang? > Datum: maandag 11 oktober 1999 13:34 > > > I think that with a structure of the word like yours, so many > consonnants don't pose any problem. But if the schwa was to be elided > for example, there would be a problem of consonnant clusters and > reduction of them, as I think there would be no PoA left for that > without loss of information. About the vowels, I'm not sure that i-bar > and lowered-schwa are a good idea. They are much too schwa-like both (in > fact, the schwa can often be a i-bar in some languages). If you want to > have only two vowels, I would vote for two very different vowels, like > /a/ and /@/. To stick with your idea, I think /a/ and i-bar would be > just fine, with a lot of allophonic variation (maybe triggered by the > consonnants) of course.
I think it is not such a problem. Since the only important thing is the difference in height, the vowel will get colored by the surrounding consonants. So I can imagine something like /ti-/ becomes [ti], /p@/ becomes [pa] etc. You only need to have symbols to differentiate the height. /e/ and /a/ could do. BTW, you mentioned clicks? Clicks only occur in Southern Africa and you say you are influenced by America. Do you mean ejectives and/or glottalics and/or clicks? Rob