Re: Putting the J in Sleep

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Steg Belsky wrote:

> So, has anyone ever come up with a conlang where the pronunciation of
> individual phonemes varies by some seemingly-arbitrary variable, like
> the time of day?  Or the dominant color of the speaker's surroundings?
> Or what the speaker ate for lunch?  Or...?
ANAD(EW).

In Chukchi, a possible language isolate spoken in Chokotka in Eastern
Siberia, the phoneme /k/ is pronounced differently depending on whether
the speaker is male or female.

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Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
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