Re: Consonant Table
| From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 3, 2003, 3:52 |
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I was able to deciper it (if you want a table, you might as well make an
HTML document and send us a link). Other than the <k> = /kw/ which threw me
off, I think it's good.
About the palatals <ti>, <di>, <dhi>, etc.: can these consonants occur
before other consonants, or only before vowels? If so, then I'd consider
using <tj>, <dj> etc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Bates" <christopher.bates@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 5:07 AM
Subject: Consonant Table
> Joe,
> I have started again now, but I've just reinventing it all because
> I read a bit about proto indo european and decided to nick a few bits of
> its phonology, so I'm changing things to fit in the extra sounds. I
> borrowed some of its stop consonants and its tendency to have vocalic l
> r m n y and w. So now I have
>
> p b bh t d dh ti di dhi
> c g gh k q qh '
> mh m nh n ni
> ngh ng f s sh
> ç h h
>
> r
> w y
> l li
>
> I'm not sure if its any good, or at all consistent, I might have to
> revise it again. bh etc are aspirated voiced stops, mh etc are unvoiced
> nasals, ç is a palatal unvoiced fricative, and the velar and glottal
> fricatives are allophones. ' is a glottal stop, k, q etc are labialised,
> the r is a uvular trill (since I can do that in all positions lol) and
> the ti, di, .... li just mean that t d and all the alveolar consonants
> except s become palatised when followed by i or y instead of the i or y
> being pronounced separately. All the fricatives except ç and h become
> voiced when used intervocally or in a voiced consonant cluster. I think
> I might have to remove some sounds....
> BTW, mind me asking if you work at the university or study at it Joe? I
> went for an interview there but I was turned down because I wasn't
> clever enough dammit lol. Plus I pissed off the statistics tutor.
>
> Chris.
>
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