Re: OFF : Clusters & Gibberish (was : vowel scheme for newlanguage)

At 14:02 22/05/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>> My Moten has a very unrestrictive phonology
>
>What kind of clusters are permitted?  In my Watakassi', the permitted
>syllable-types are (C)(apr)V(n/Fric/l), with a few forbidden clusters
>like glide+glide (*wya not allowed) and dental-obstruent+w (*tw, *dw,
>*nw forbidden), while in Eastern, the permitted syllable-type is
>(C)(apr)V(C)(Fric), with syllable-final fric-fric forbidden
>
        I don't know. Maybe all the clusters I can pronounce. The only limitations
I can find are as follows:
- in clusters, stops and fricatives must be all voiced or all voiceless.
- clusters nearly never have stops with affricates.
- there are never geminates.

        Everything else is permitted I think. But most clusters appear from the
adding of infixes (like moon: kel (nominative), ktelun (accusative), gve|l
(genitive)).

>> tlaktus: '-' (what's the English word for that sign by the way?)
>Hyphen
>
>> bim|ze /bimdze/: translation
>
>Is /dz/ considered an affricate?
>
        Yes. |s and |z are affricates, |l and |n are palatal.

>>         BTW, should talk to you about the way you name colours in Moten
someday.
>
>No time like the present.
>
        I totally agree ("Ne remets pas =E0 demain ce que tu peux faire le jour=
 m=EAme").

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