Re: Constructive Criticism Appreciated

David Peterson wrote:
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> Will wrote in:
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> <<snip phoneme list>>
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> While I'm sure these sounds are utterable, I find it highly unlikely
> that they'd all find their way into the same language.
>
> Just out of curiosity: Why no pharyngealied [q], and no ejective
> pharyngealized [q]?
>
> (I've now managed to get side-tracked trying to pronounce an
> ejective pharyngeal fricative.  Does it sound like a dog coughing?)
>
> Another interesting point: Why aren't you sure if you're going to
> add nasals?  Do you dislike them?  Ooh, maybe rather than having
> nasal phonemes, you could have nasalized vowels, and then the
> nasalization could spread (by some means) to the consonants, so
> that, say, if a /t/ came in contact with a nasalized vowel it would
> become [n].  That'd be interesting.
Well, [g]~[N] certainly has precedent, and as there's no voiced stops,
it seems plausible that [k~N] could be possible, and perhaps [t~n] and
[p~m].  Though, I'd go with /w/ and /l/ as sources for [m] and [n]
myself.