Re: Poll by Email No. 9

>         This week's poll is brought to you by Jesse Bangs, who asks, "How
> large are your phonologies? Do you prefer languages with lots of sounds
> or only a few?  Do you use elaborate allophonic rules?" Those are a lot
> of questions, but we'll stick with the first one and let you comment on
> the others. Note: since some of you have more than one conlang, pick
> either your favorite conlang or the most "compete" when answering, your
> choice.
>
>         My conlang's phonetic inventory is:
>         A. Gigantic (+100)
>         B. Enormous (+75)
>         C. Huge (+60)
>         D. Expansive (+45)
>         E. Large (+30)
>         F. Average (+20)
>         G. Small (+15)
>         H. Tiny (+10)
>         I. Wee (+5)
>         J. Binary
>
>         To clarify, a conlang with 24 phonemes (not allophones!) would be
> average. A conlang with 44 phonemes would be large, while 45 would be
> considered expansive.
    Gladilatian is Small, with 19 phonemes.  However, a case could be made
that three of them are actually pairs of phonemes, and therefore there are
22.  I don't actually know what these phonemes sound like when spoken by
the gladifers.  In my conhistory humans established a gladifer-to-human
phonemic mapping soon after first contact, and it is this mapping (called
the Capetown mapping) that I use when speaking or thinking about the
language.  This is what my novella is referring to when it mentions "human
phonemes".

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                 Dennis Paul Himes    <>    himes@cshore.com
                   http://home.cshore.com/himes/dennis.htm
        Gladilatian page: http://home.cshore.com/himes/glad/lang.htm

Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle
brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as
the air."                      - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse 96-99

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