Re: Consonant Table

I probably didn't explain what I meant very well.... if you write the
word tin, the t is alveolar and the i is pronounced. But if i is
followed by another vowel sound, for instance tian, ti together
represents one palatal sound instead of t + i. I don't think they can
occur in front of consonants. I've gone stop mad suddenly lol... I was
thinking about adding a set of palatised velar consonants (because PIE
has them, and it was reading about PIE that made me add so many stops in
the first place).

>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.
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>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.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris Bates" <christopher.bates@...>
>To: <CONLANG@...>
>Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 5:07 AM
>Subject: Consonant Table
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>>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
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>>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
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>>   r
>>w                                                    y
>>                    l                                 li
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>>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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