Re: Non-humanoid langs
| From: | Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 6:03 |
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:51:41 -0700, Joseph a.k.a Buck <zhosh@...>
wrote:
>Palu f'Thule - spoken by Thule, which are intelligent hedgehogs
>Bez Dis's - spoken by Bez, which are 3-lobed starfish
>Gremegr - spoken by Gwagwagw, which are are quadrapedal hive mammals
>Laafaah Trayis - spoken by Trayih, which are serpent-men a la H.P.
Lovecraft
>and R.E. Howard
Interesting.
One of the reasons I asked was that I'm toying with the notion of a
toadspeech, for want of a better name, not really speakable by human vocal
apparatus as we lack the inflatable chin pouches and the laryngeal rattle
drums. Probably highly resonant, possibly tonal (I keep threatening myself
with this and then not doing it properly), with four forms of consonant
(voiceless-unrattled, voiceless-rattled, voiced-unrattled and voiced-
rattled) and rattled and unrattled vowel distinctions.
Geoff